Anglican Church

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation Elizabeth Warren
EW was apparently a conservative, Puritan Englishwoman of the gentry or professional class. She belonged to the Church ofEngland ; she attacks both sectaries and Catholics. In politics she was a monarchist.
Cultural formation Charlotte Guest
CG remained a member of the Church of England (with Low Church or Evangelical sympathies) although her first husband was a Dissenter and she often felt in Wales that the Dissenters were doing a better...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Elstob
She was a middle-class, English, presumably white, High Tory Anglican .
Cultural formation Henrietta Euphemia Tindal
Her family were moneyed members of the English gentry and the Established Church .
Cultural formation Lady Ottoline Morrell
At an Anglican convent in Cornwall run by the Little Sisters of the Poor , Lady Ottoline Bentinck (later Morrell) met Mother Julian , one of her early mentors.
Seymour, Miranda. Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1992.
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Cultural formation Penelope Lively
PL is, she says, an agnostic. She came out as such at around fifteen to her grandmother (a keen Anglican whose religion involved a commitment to serving the local community). She explained that she assented...
Cultural formation Mary Ann Browne
She grew up adhering to a private religion of her own, a Romantic religion of the imagination. In 1832, however, a kind of conversion experience made her a conventional Christian, an Anglican like the rest...
Cultural formation Sarah Lady Pennington
SLP was an Englishwoman, born into the professional class, presumably white, who was married for her money. By her marriage moved into the upper reaches of the gentry. She became déclassée on the breakdown of...
Cultural formation Louisa Stuart Costello
Her family were professional people of Irish extraction.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
The fact that her brother received Anglican baptism years after his birth suggests that the family may perhaps have been Catholics before that.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Cultural formation Joan Vokins
Born in the yeoman class, she was brought up an Anglican . In youth and for years after her marriage she felt spiritually lost, as a ship without an anchor among the merciless waves.
qtd. in
Graham, Elspeth et al., editors. Her Own Life. Routledge, 1989.
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Cultural formation Frances Ridley Havergal
FRH was confirmed in the Anglican Church ; her particular views were Evangelical.
Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989.
Cultural formation Elizabeth Strutt
ES appears to have been securely rooted in the English middle class, presumably white, and evidently from her later writings an Anglican .
Cultural formation Jennifer Johnston
She says she was indifferent to religion as a child, and was attracted to churches more by atmosphere than by any religious practice.
qtd. in
Quinn, John, editor. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl. Methuen, 1986.
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On atmosphere, she leaned to the Catholic Church (she had first...
Cultural formation Elma Napier
EN was exposed to a range of Christian faiths. Though her mother was Episcopalian , the family attended a Presbyterian kirk (the Church of Scotland) for a time during Elma's early childhood. One of her...
Cultural formation Maude Royden
Her religious upbringing provided some exposure to Catholicism, which attracted her. By her mid-twenties she found herself in much perplexity about my religion . . . and I could not find rest for my soul...

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