Anglican Church

Her family is called respectable, which may have implied membership of the middling ranks, and she was baptised into the Anglican church.

AC belonged by birth and marriage to the English upper classes, though many of her friends and associates came from signficantly lower down the social scale. Her rationalism and quietism made her an eccentric Anglican

ME wrote that she hated many of the forms of Christianity and other religions . . . . because of the sacrifice at the centre of them—the sacrificial blood. This hatred was connected with her...

JW was born into the English middle class and the established Church. The careers of her male relatives suggest the upper middle class, while her own employment suggests the lower middle class.

EAB was baptised into the Church of England . Her religious belief was broad-minded, liberal, tolerant. Faced with the Evangelical tendencies of the family of her future husband, who disapproved of many of her Sunday...

AT 's family came from the middle classes of Lancashire and Scotland, but lived a rootless, unsettled life as her father pursued his career. Both sides had been Jacobites during the eighteenth century. She...

Her parents were both Scots of the professional classes, with links on each side to the nobility, which AH emphasizes at a date when she had married into the latter class.AH was a...

She was born into a well-educated, strictly Anglican family. Both her grandfathers were clergymen and most of her brothers had distinguished careers in public life. Her father's position as a prominent solicitor and land agent...

Her mother taught her to love the language of the Anglican prayer book and made her go to church (of the very HighAnglican variety). JG gave up her church-going when she was free to do...

FN experienced a time of religious rebirth after receiving another call from God on 7 May 1852. That summer and autumn, as her disillusionment with the Anglican Church increased, she considered becoming a Roman Catholic

EW was born into the rising English urban middle class, but her husband, who spent much time among the upper classes, later wrote that both he and she were obscure Persons of low Degree.

In youth she acquired the habit of walking several miles each week to hear a Puritan preacher. When she was married, she and her husband considered leaving the Anglican church for the Independents, but decided...

Her father had been impressed as a young man by the Morrisonian revival, a revolt against rigorous Calvinism. He was violently opposed to belief in predestination, and helped build a little Evangelical Union Church which...

As the daughter of a dissenting clergyman, AH was born into an English, middle-class, and presumably white family. Her father's parents were described in one source as of respectable character and station, engaged in agricultural...

SJ was a passionate, perhaps a bigoted, Anglican , who was never until very late in life able to believe in the likelihood of his own salvation. In matters involving religion (including issues of gender...