Anglican Church

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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 Elizabeth Elstob
She was a middle-class, English, presumably white, High Tory Anglican .
Cultural formation Geraldine Jewsbury
GJ was born to middle-class, presumably white, English parents who were members of the Church of England .
Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin, 1935.
38
Armstrong, Isobel et al., editors. Nineteenth-Century Women Poets. Clarendon Press, 1996.
216
Cultural formation Constance Lytton
CL was born into the English ruling class and baptised into the Church ofEngland . She became a vegetarian in her twenties, for moral and compassionate as well as for health reasons.
Lytton, Constance. Prisons and Prisoners. Heinemann, 1914.
2
Not until...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Teft
Little is known of ET 's background. She was English, presumably white, and her writing shows that she was a member of the middling ranks. From the opinions clearly voiced in her poetry, she must...
Cultural formation Janet Schaw
JS was a white Scotswoman of the land-owning and business class. She was a Presbyterian by birth and training; as an adult she was in principle broad-minded and tolerant of religious difference, except for being...
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 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 Sarah Pearson
She belonged to the (presumably white) English, Anglican , middling ranks. The idea that she was a servant and a Baptist has arisen from confusion with Susanna (Flinders) Pearson.
Basker, James G., editor. Amazing Grace. Yale University Press, 2002.
412
Cultural formation Emily Hickey
Brought up as an Anglican in the Church of Ireland , she devoted herself with increasing fervour to her religion. Later she converted and became an extremely devout Catholic .
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research, 1999.
199: 167
Peterson, William S. Interrogating the Oracle: A History of the London Browning Society. Ohio University Press, 1969.
17, 18
Cultural formation Sheila Kaye-Smith
SKS became an Anglo-Catholic, and made her first confession (a practice followed only in the higher congregations within the Church of England ).
Walker, Dorothea. Sheila Kaye-Smith. Twayne, 1980.
86
Cultural formation Emma Marshall
She was born into the English middle class. Her mother had been a Quaker , who was disowned by the Friends on her marriage to a non-Quaker, but received back into the Society after the...
Cultural formation Harriet Beecher Stowe
In 1816, HBS went to stay for a time with her grandmother in a setting widely different from her birth home. Her father's home is described as being Congregational and democratic in contrast to the...
Cultural formation Agnes Beaumont
AB chose her own faith, joining first the Independents and then the Baptists . Her family belonged to the Church of England (though her elder brother seems to have been a dissenter like herself).
Cultural formation Mary Caesar
Born into the English gentry class, she was an Anglican and a fervent Tory and Jacobite , who believed, in fact, that these two terms were synonymous.

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