Anglican Church

RC 's father, the Rev. Edward John Sewell Lamburn , came from a farming family and was ordained in the Anglican Church . He opted, however, to teach at Bury Grammar School, rather than taking...

EAD 's father, Lewis Llewelyn Dillwyn , owned a spelter works, Dillwyn and Co. , in Llansamlet, a little to the north of Swansea. He later entered into a business partnership with William Siemens

A year and a half after the death of her partner George Henry Lewes , GE got married: to their young friend and banker John Walter Cross , in an Anglican ceremony at St George's...

Mary's other grandmother spoke Yorkshire dialect like her husband, and was conservative in dress (wearing a lace net on her hair), but eclectic in religion, attending church and chapel alternately. It was from this...

AJ 's husband John Jebb resigned his Church of England preferments including his Cambridge lectureship.

After about three years as a widow EB 's mother married again, when her daughter Elizabeth was about seven. Her second husband, Nathaniel Bradshaw , was a clergyman of the Church of England , a...

CC 's elder son, Theophilus, was born in 1776. His mother was trying in 1799, after his graduation, to get him a parish, and in 1802 to get him a better one. Her younger son...

Noel's father, William Streatfeild , had grown up as the eldest of ten children of a clergy family in a rather grand house. He too went into the Anglican Church , in which he was...

Elizabeth Lawrence (later EB ) was much sought after, implicitly for marriage, by members of the Established Church who wished to reclaim her for orthodoxy: her second husband, writing about fifty years after the event...

Through her work to raise the status and opportunities of women in the Anglican ministry, MR not only formed a working friendship with Susan Miles , but also (in 1912 or 1913) met Edith Picton-Turbervill

The words of the title are used to describe marriage in the Church of England 's Book of Common Prayer. In her foreword to the novel, VB explained that Honourable Estate purports to show...

The title intentionally mangles the opening of a prayer for late evening from the AnglicanThe Book of Common Prayer: Lighten our darkness, we beseech thee, O Lord. This funny, bitter, rough-edged play...

George Orwell no doubt spoke for a section of Eliot's readership when he wrote in October 1942 of the first three quartets: There is very little in Eliot's later work that makes any deep impression...

W. T. Stead 's rapid and strong disaproval of the novel on grounds of immorality in the Pall Mall Gazette spelled instant notoriety. Despite EFB 's moral purpose, Stead declared: its whole significance lies in...

According to Sally Mitchell , FPC herself recognized that her writing had lost its wit and charm as she became immersed in the antivivisectionist cause. Charges of inaccuracy in her antivivisection writing came to...