Anglican Church

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Cultural formation May Sinclair
Deane invested considerable time and effort, around early 1894, attempting to persuade MS out of her unorthodox questioning and back to the Anglican church. Sinclair, however, found that she could not accept the existence of...
Cultural formation Mary Louisa Molesworth
Though she grew up in England, MLM 's Scottish roots, on both sides of the family, were important to her. Her parents were, however, Calvinist Presbyterian s, and this faith, which she later regarded as...
Cultural formation Frances Reynolds
She was born into an English west-country professional or just-gentry family, and was a devout Anglican , who cared about whether or not her friends went to church and disapproved of her brother Joshua painting...
Cultural formation Frances Burney
FB was serious about her Anglican faith, but much more sympathetic towards Roman Catholicism , which was practised by her maternal grandmother, than most Anglicans of her day, even before she married a Catholic.
Hemlow, Joyce. The History of Fanny Burney. Clarendon, 1958.
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Doody, Margaret Anne. Frances Burney: The Life in the Works. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
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Cultural formation Charlotte Yonge
CY 's immediate family and ancestors were devout English believers of the old High Church tradition of the Anglican faith which descended from the Non-Jurors of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. She had a...
Cultural formation Mary Ann Radcliffe
MAR 's life was shaped by the Roman Catholic identity of her mother and husband, though her father belonged to the established church and she was herself baptised as an Anglican.
Cultural formation Constantia Grierson
Constantia received some early instruction from the Minister of the Parish
qtd. in
Elias, A. C., Jr. “A Manuscript of Constantia Grierson’s”. Swift Studies, Vol.
2
, 1987, pp. 33-56.
36
and later belonged to the Church of Ireland . Her husband was a churchwarden.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under George Grierson
By the time that her children...
Cultural formation Harriett Mozley
Harriett remained committed to the Church of England throughout her life and was deeply distressed when her brother John Henry Newman converted to Catholicism. She evidently saw herself as something of a specialist in theological...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Tollet
ET was born a middle-class Englishwoman of the urban, professional, intellectual class. In later terminology she was one of the daughters of educated men. She adhered to the Anglican religion (both the King James version...
Cultural formation Mary Linskill
Seventeenth-century Linskills were active in the Society of Friends and in local trade.
Quinlan, David, and Arthur Frederick Humble. Mary Linskill: The Whitby Novelist. Horne and Son, 1969.
5-6
Mary Jane was strongly religious. Stamp relays a story of her mother not only frightening her with stories about hell, but...
Cultural formation Mary Sewell
Both of MS 's parents were members of the Society of Friends , as were her husband's family. She remained a Friend, or Quaker, until 1835, when she joined the Church of England after flirting...
Cultural formation Phyllis Bentley
Her family was rooted in Yorkshire and in a Liberal, Nonconformist background. Her parents, however, became Anglicans and considered themselves Conservatives. With generations of involvement in the textile trade behind them, they belonged, in her...
Cultural formation Rosa Nouchette Carey
In religion RNC was an earnest HighAnglican . Her friend Helen Marion Burnside said she had never known a writer who so consistently lived her religion, to the extent of putting family duties before her writing.
qtd. in
Wilson, Katharina M. et al., editors. Women Writers of Great Britain and Europe: An Encyclopedia. Garland, 1997.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Cultural formation Georgiana Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire
Her membership by birth in the English nobility gave her a relative imperviousness to public opinion. She was a believing Anglican .
Cultural formation Pamela Frankau
The Times obituary of PF describes her as coming from a gifted Jewish family
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(9 June 1967): 12
on her father's side, but it was not an observant family. G. B. Stern refers to PF

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