Anglican Church

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Cultural formation Mary Jones
MJ was a middle-class Anglican Englishwoman.
Cultural formation Mary Bosanquet Fletcher
The new vicar (who did not live in the parish) respected her so highly that he allowed her to appoint a curate (the vicar's substitute) of her own choice, Mr Horne. She was personally sorry...
Cultural formation Judith Man
She was by birth an Englishwoman of the professional class dependent on the nobility, politically monarchist and presumably Anglican .
Cultural formation Emma Caroline Wood
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...
Cultural formation Evelyn Underhill
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.
Greene, Dana. Evelyn Underhill: Artist of the Infinite Life. Crossroad, 1990.
74
Cultural formation Anna Steele
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...
Cultural formation Mary Palmer
MP was born into the English rural professional class on the fringes of the gentry, and was a member of the Church of England .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Sir Joshua Reynolds
Cultural formation Hester Mulso Chapone
She was born into an English, gentry, strongly Anglican family, whose influence remained an important factor all her life.
Cultural formation Susanna Hopton
Born into the rising and prosperous English trading class, with strong gentry connections, SH was baptised into the Church ofEngland . Possibly out of loyalty to her dead father, who worked for the royal family...
Cultural formation Margaret Drabble
MD 's family background is Anglican . Initially, her mother was an atheist and her father took the children to an Anglican church, but both parents held Quaker values and eventually joined the Society of Friends
Cultural formation Harriet Hamilton King
Very little is known about her early life. Presumably white, she was born to an upper-class family with relations in the peerage, Scottish on both sides. Late in life she converted to Roman Catholicism ...
Cultural formation Louisa Anne Meredith
LAM had a dual class background: her mother came from a professional family and her father from a working-class one, though he latterly worked more with his head than his hands. They were of English...
Cultural formation Joanna Trollope
JT grew up as a member of the English professional class and of the Church of England .
Cultural formation Felicia Skene
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 .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Cultural formation Margaret Haig Viscountess Rhondda
She came from a Welsh entrepreneurial or upper-class family. Her class status (or in this case that of her husband) in 1913 ensured her release from prison, where she had been sent for suffrage activity...

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January 1802: The Christian Observer was launched, as a...

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January 1802

The Christian Observer was launched, as a journal Conducted by members of the established church with the aim of combating Methodism and other Dissenting sects as well as radicalism and scepticism.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1803: The Wesleyan Conference decided that their...

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1803

The Wesleyan Conference decided that their association (still within the Anglican Church but soon to form the new body of the Methodist Church ) should bar women from preaching.
Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton, 1996.
207

Perhaps late 1803: Mrs Marriott (almost certainly Martha Marriott,...

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Perhaps late 1803

Mrs Marriott (almost certainly Martha Marriott , 1737-1812, of Mendlesham in Suffolk) published Elements of Religion, Containing a Simple Deduction of Christianity , from its Source to its Present Circumstances.
Londry, Michael. The Lisle Bamford McEachern Collection.

1811: The National Society for Promoting the Education...

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1812: The Wesleyan Conference split from the Church...

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1812

The Wesleyan Conference split from the Church of England to form the Methodist Church .
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
49

14 August 1829: King's College, University of London, was...

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14 August 1829

King's College, University of London , was founded and given a charter; it opened its doors two years later.
Harte, Negley. The University of London 1836-1986. Athlone, 1986.
61-80
The World of Learning. 45th ed., Allen and Unwin, 1995.
1618
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.

14 July 1833: John Keble preached a sermon at St Mary's...

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14 July 1833

John Keble preached a sermon at St Mary's Church, High Street, Oxford (the University Church), on National Apostacy; it is viewed as the beginning of the Tractarian Movement.
Marriott, Sir John A. R. Oxford, Its Place in National History. Clarendon, 1933.
172

1837: The debate over sacramental wine raged in...

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1837

The debate over sacramental wine raged in the temperance movement: Rev. Beardsall of Manchester campaigned for the substitution of grape juice or unfermented wine at the altar.
Shiman, Lilian Lewis. Crusade against Drink in Victorian England. Macmillan, 1988.
69-70, 72

15 August 1838: The Irish Tithe Commutation Act was passed;...

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15 August 1838

The Irish Tithe Commutation Act was passed; a dubious victory at best for the peasantry.
MacDonagh, Oliver. Ireland: the Union and its Aftermath. George Allen and Unwin, 1977.
22
The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2024.

1843: The Edinburgh Review chastised the advertising...

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1843

The Edinburgh Review chastised the advertising industry for blatant lies, particularly in the use of fictitious product endorsements.
Richards, Thomas. The Commodity Culture of Victorian England: Advertising and Spectacle, 1851-1914. Stanford University Press, 1990.
22, 84

January 1846: An Anglican newspaper titled The Guardian...

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January 1846

An Anglican newspaper titled The Guardian began publication in London, supporting the Tractarian movement in the Church of England.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.

18 July 1848: The Sisters of St John's House was established...

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18 July 1848

The Sisters of St John's House was established at King's College Hospital for the newly founded Anglican nursing order, the Community of Nursing Sisters of St John the Divine .
Dolan, Josephine A. History of Nursing. 12th ed., Saunders, 1968.
205
Poovey, Mary, and Florence Nightingale. “Introduction”. Cassandra and Other Selections from Suggestions for Thought, edited by Mary Poovey and Mary Poovey, New York University Press, 1993.
xix
Cartwright, Frederick F. et al. The Story of King’s College Hospital and its Medical School. Editor Britten, D. J., Farrand Press, 1991.
21
Abel-Smith, Brian. A History of the Nursing Profession. Heinemann, 1960.
19
Williams, Katherine. “From Sarah Gamp to Florence Nightingale: A Critical Study of Hospital Nursing Systems from 1840 to 1897”. Rewriting Nursing History, edited by Celia Davies, Barnes and Noble, 1980, pp. 41-75.
46, 51

16 October 1848: Priscilla Lydia Sellon founded the Church...

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16 October 1848

Priscilla Lydia Sellon founded the Church of EnglandSisterhood of Mercy of Devonport and Plymouth in Exeter.
Anson, Peter F. The Call of the Cloister: Religious Communities and Kindred Bodies in the Anglican Communion. Editor Campbell, A. W., Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1964.
239-40, 262

14 September 1850: A new convent for the Anglican Sisterhood...

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14 September 1850

A new convent for the AnglicanSisterhood of the Holy Cross began construction in Osnaburgh Street in London.
Anson, Peter F. The Call of the Cloister: Religious Communities and Kindred Bodies in the Anglican Communion. Editor Campbell, A. W., Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1964.
240

8 August 1851: The system of tithes (one-tenth of the produce...

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8 August 1851

The system of tithes (one-tenth of the produce of agricultural land paid yearly for the support of the Church of England ) was abolished at the instigation of William Blamire the younger (1790-1862).
Maycock, Christopher. A Passionate Poet: Susanna Blamire, 1747-94: A Biography. Hypatia, 2003.
97
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Blamire

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