Anglican Church

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Cultural formation Henrietta Euphemia Tindal
Her family were moneyed members of the English gentry and the Established Church .
Cultural formation Elizabeth Elstob
She was a middle-class, English, presumably white, High Tory Anglican .
Cultural formation Constance Naden
She was baptised into the Church of England but while she lived with them attended, as they did, several different Baptist chapels. CN later became a student of science and a sceptic in matters of...
Cultural formation Ruth Pitter
RP was baptised an Anglican as a baby by parents who had trained at Church of England colleges but were not churchgoers.
Russell, Arthur et al. “Faithful to Delight: A Portrait Sketch”. Ruth Pitter: Homage to a Poet, edited by Arthur Russell, Rapp and Whiting, 1969, pp. 19-40.
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Brought up between her father's scepticism and her mother's eclecticism in matters...
Cultural formation Mary Harcourt
Born into the upper ranks of the English gentry and into the Church of England , presumably white, she entered into metropolitan court society with her first marriage and reached the fringes of the nobility...
Cultural formation Sophia Jex-Blake
Both of SJB 's parents descended from well-established Norfolk families, presumably white, and belonged to the Anglican Church . Sophia and her siblings were denied many social indulgences in favour of the work expected of...
Cultural formation Rose Macaulay
Her brother's death impelled her to search in Anglican ritual, liturgy, and sacraments for a faith to sustain her.
Cultural formation Ethel Lilian Voynich
English-identified despite her Irish birth and cosmopolitan interests, and presumably white, she came from the intelligentsia although her family was very poor. By the time of her ninety-fifth birthday, after nearly forty years residence in...
Cultural formation Clara Balfour
Herself baptised (after her father's death) into the Church of England , she later converted and joined the Baptists with the rest of her family in 1840.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Cultural formation Jan Struther
JS was born to an upper-class family, and later felt that her childhood friendships with the household servants had awakened in her a sense of social justice and protest. Ironically, she came to be widely...
Cultural formation Rhoda Broughton
RB was presumably white, and was born into an Anglican , upper-middle-class family, with an English father and Irish mother. She grew up at Broughton Hall near Eccleshall in Staffordshire, an Elizabethan manor house...
Cultural formation Maude Royden
MR grew up in a Conservative, Anglican family of wealthy English shipyard owners.
Ceadel, Martin. Pacifism in Britain, 1914-1945 : The Defining of a Faith. Clarendon, 1980, http://U of A HSS.
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In 1922 she said, I was born a woman and I can't get over it.
qtd. in
Fletcher, Sheila. Maude Royden: A Life. Basil Blackwell, 1989.
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Cultural formation Walter Pater
The Paters were Anglican . WP later struggled with his religious faith, which had become quite strong during his youth, and eventually broke away from the Christian tradition. During his time at Oxford, he was...
Cultural formation Constance Holme
CH 's parents came from long-established gentry families in their area and were said to have been regarded with deep respect by local people—a respect which they would have claimed as their due. She was...
Cultural formation Annie Keary
Having found she could live with Broad Church theology as to the issue of damnation, she later encountered further difficulties over new scientific theories. These threatened her intellectual hold on religion, though her sister insists...

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