Anglican Church

After marriage and especially as help became more difficult to get, DW cooked, sewed, and sometimes picked fruit for sale. She partnered her husband at farming at their several Suffolk farms and was an indefatigable...

Bere had already preached against Young; he now demanded his dismissal. At this point, unfortunately, Patty More 's journal of the period ends. Young was encouraging his adult pupils to extemporary prayer—something strongly disapproved by...

An ordained clergyman, he held many positions in the Church of England , and lectured on divinity at St Paul's Cathedral. He was an adviser on Bentley's Miscellany and a founder member of the...

After taking his degree in 1842, he remained at Oxford and was elected to a Fellowship at Oriel College . Religious doubts led him to resign his fellowship before he was required to take orders...

WLB 's sonnets, which formed the basis of his reputation as a poet, first appeared in 1789, five years after those of Charlotte Smith and shortly after her lavish, illustrated fifth edition. Bowles always denied...

MR was elected to the National Church Assembly , formed in this year to act as a kind of parliament for the Church of England , which opened its first session on 30 June.

By invitation, EU led an Anglican retreat at Canterbury Cathedral, the first woman to do this.

Back in England he established himself as a schoolmaster, having charge first of his nephews Edward and John Phillips, and then of a larger number of pupils. He was probably a teacher for seven...

More than a decade after this, at sixty, PM returned to journalism, this time as an interviewer for The Observer colour magazine (only two years after this was launched, following the lead of the Sunday...

At South Luffenham, MRvisited the needy, coached some girls who wanted to be teachers, took evening classes for those who had left school but still didn't know everything, [and] taught in the Sunday School...

CN 's public humiliation at the hands of George Norton drove her to campaign against current divorce laws and property laws concerning women. Although not associated with feminist organisations pursuing the cause, she was in...

Lady Tyrwhit's fervent Protestantism was, at this date, a highly politicized position. She and her group of court ladies were hounded by highly-placed religious traditionalists, enemies of Katherine Parr , since the queen was well...

After other countries within the Anglican Communion (but not the Church of England) began to ordain women, female priests who were visiting from abroad on holiday or on business in England would be invited by...

GRAS was a response to the Church of England 's Episcopal Act of Synod, passed in 1993, which allowed for the Church of the future to divide into two bodies, one recognizing the ordination of...

From 1867-1869, CFA and her husband resisted the political crusade against the established Irish Church . Her main involvement was providing hospitality, which she did with an ease and natural dignity, for those...