Anglican Church

AP was not merely an old Jacobin, but remained at least until 1810 a Bonapartist. She thought at that date that England would benefit from a French invasion to destroy the aristocracy and the...

In the year 1689 SH became a Jacobite. She felt that William and Mary had no right to the English throne, which still belonged in principle to James II . She made herself a strong...

In Lichfield, with some local women, Susan Walker and Marie Noble , LED discussed resistance to Laud 's current reforms of the Church of England . At Lichfield Cathedral the altar had been moved away...

The College applied for incorporation as an Association under the Board of Trade in order to establish its legal existence. The document drawn up by the College's Committee professed the College's affiliation with both the...

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...

MM , at the palace of the Bishop of Chester and Lancaster, debated with Bishop Nicholas Stratford and other ecclesiastics on the legality, or rather the scripture authority for, compulsory payment of tithes to the...

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...

DW first became acurely aware of the burden of tithe-paying on farmers shortly after the birth of her first child. She felt the injustice of this tax, levied on the land but not on other...

DW went on to join a London rally in June 1936 against the bill which became the Tithe Act (which arranged for the tithe income of the Church of England to be otherwise supplied, and...

DW 's anti-tithing campaign put her in the tradition of seventeenth-century writers like Mary Cary , Margaret Fell , and innumerable others; but whereas they condemned the Church of England for doctrinal reasons and in...

EB was a seventeenth-century woman whose religious background (radical Anglican , which after the Restoration became Dissenting ) encouraged her to acquire a scholarly education. Her spiritual life embraced the practice of diary- and...

CFA wrote both hymns and verse, the latter also usually adaptable for music. Her work was mainly directed towards young audiences, as she excelled at writing for children. Over the course of her career in...

SH 's intense involvement in the religious controversies of the later seventeenth century led her to study, write, and publish texts both theological and devotional, often adapting Roman Catholic sources to make them usable by...