Anglican Church

JB 's spiritual struggle dated back to his unregenerate teens. Under the influence of his first wife he began attending the establishedchurch and developed exaggerated reverence for its priests, but he later saw this...

SLC was a fervent Anglican : her husband felt her piety would wear out a parson, let alone a man of some religious scepticism like himself. When in 1701 she met the free-thinking philosopher...

MJY 's origins were apparently somewhere in the English middling ranks, possibly with some family connection to the theatre. She was presumably white. Her writings suggest that she belonged to the Church of England and...

Though born in Lisbon, she came from a presumably white, Anglican , English, high-ranking military family, and moved in upper-class circles. Her family were of the squirearchy and their name was derived from the...

EU returned actively to the Church ofEngland , in which she had been baptised and confirmed. Fourteen years earlier the move would have been unthinkable, as she could not then accept Anglican teachings.

Her heritage was English: her mother 's family name, Michell, was said to derive from a village near St Columb Major in Cornwall, now spelled Mitchell. Both sides of Steel's family were presumably white...

An earnest Protestant, believing in the right and duty for men and women to read the Bible for themselves, she had a formative influence on the English Reformation and the birth of the Church of England

GMH had found the liberal and progressive ethos of Balliol a strain, and set himself against it. His Anglican practices became more and more high, to the extent of making confession and kissing the...

As an adult, she converted from Anglicanism to Catholicism . She later became a vegetarian, and involved herself with two alternative movements, Spiritualism and Theosophy, before breaking away from the Theosophical Society to form the...

While Mrs Meeke the English writer was wrongly identified by scholars as a comfortably and securely upper-middle-class wife of an Anglican clergyman, her frenetic production of novels was at least surprising. Now, however, that she...

She belonged by birth to the English working class and was presumably white. Her parents were Anglicans .

EMD was born into the middle class, and of a mixed marriage, her mother being Protestant and her father a Catholic who had abandoned his faith. With the money brought by her writing, EMD adopted...

Daughter, wife, and mother of clergymen, AF was English, Anglican , and presumably white.

JT grew up as a member of the English professional class and of the Church of England .

The Skenes may have belonged to the EpiscopalChurch of Scotland ; FS 's Anglican devotional works support this idea. She also as an adult involved herself in the OxfordMovement .