Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus, 1940.
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Cultural formation | Queen Victoria | QV
was a devout Anglican
, as befitted the head of the Church of England
. (When in Scotland, however, she attended the local Presbyterian
, that is Church of Scotland
, parish church.) |
Cultural formation | Agnes Strickland | Her securely middle-class family had aspirations to rise higher in the social scale, but their financial status steadily declined. They were High Anglicans
. Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus, 1940. 21 |
Cultural formation | Judith Cowper Madan | Born into the English professional class, to a family with strong connections with the law, JCM
became deeply religious. When the Methodist
movement got going (still within the Church of England
) it attracted her strongly. |
Cultural formation | L. S. Bevington | She was born into a white and wealthy English family. It had Quaker
roots on both sides, but there are questions about whether or not she was brought up in the Society of Friends. The... |
Cultural formation | Lady Jane Cavendish | LJC
was born to privilege and her father's career took her into the highest ranks of English society. He professed himself a devout member of the Church of England (into which his children followed him)... |
Cultural formation | Benjamin Disraeli | In his political career and the high office which he attained, BD
did something unprecedented in England for someone of his Jewish ethnicity. By the early twenty-first century he remained Britain's only Jewish Prime Minister... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Freke | Her Anglican
piety extended to keeping a coffin by her bed to remind her of her latter end, but did not extend to submission to authority. I disputte nott your lordships rightt, and farr be... |
Cultural formation | Emma Parker | She says her family had gentry status but no money. She was Welsh by domicile and probably by birth. Her Christian (presumably Anglican
) faith appears to have been important to her. |
Cultural formation | Jane Francesca Lady Wilde | Though confirmed into the Church of Ireland (that is, in the Anglican
faith) she sometimes thought (for partly political reasons) of converting to Roman Catholicism
. She arranged a second, Catholic christening for her sons. Ellmann, Richard. Oscar Wilde. Knopf, 1988. 6, 19 |
Cultural formation | Susan Tweedsmuir | Her immediate, nuclear family was an enclave of agnosticism while her extended family was unanimously Anglican
—though not uniformly, since it was sharply divided between High and Low Church. Her memoirs emphasise the moral strength... |
Cultural formation | Anna Kingsford | According to biographer Edward Maitland
, AK
first became deeply interested in Anglican
theology after the birth of her daughter, while her husband Algernon was studying for the ministry. She began attending classes with him,... |
Cultural formation | Susan Smythies | SS
was an Englishwoman born into a family in which a high proportion of the men became clergymen in the Church ofEngland
. “Genealogical Notes to the Pedigree of the Smythies Family”. Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, Vol. 4: 4 , 1912, pp. 276 - 86, 306. 315,317 |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Rigby | ER
was born to presumably white, English, middle-class parents. She was a practising Anglican
and leaned towards High Church doctrine. Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray, 1961. 9, 62 Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray, 1961. 9 |
Cultural formation | Gillian Allnutt | Born into a nominally Anglican
family of the middle or professional class, GA
is an Englishwoman who knows by experience both the North and South of the country. Her family officially belonged to the Church ofEngland |
Cultural formation | Caroline Bowles | She was a strong proponent of the Anglican Church
. |
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