Do not forget that queen Elizabeth I was head of the break away Church soon after her daddy, so the road map would have been molded for things to come.
Maleth, I think that's a little different. From everything I know of Elizabeth she was the ultimate pragmatist and political animal. Religiously, all she did was try to maintain the status quo. Her father's decision to break with Rome had everything to do with getting a divorce so he could marry Anne Boleyn, who had the sense to hold out for marriage for a very long time, and when she gave in, fortunately, for her, became pregnant, which was of utmost importance to that swine Henry, as he had only one legitimate child, a girl, and only one illegitimate one, for that matter. The man was a walking Freudian cartoon. He had no doctrinal quarrels with the Roman church, and did his utmost to keep Calvinism out of England.
Whew! I guess you know what I think of Henry VIII!
I still maintain there was no real role in Protestant sects for women; no room for their input theologically, in particular, although there were a few small Anglican orders for nuns. There was no room in general for the mystical for either men or women.
The only place where a maternal, merciful manifestation of the sacred existed and continues to exist in Europe is in the Marian devotions of Catholic and Orthodox religions.
Salve Regina is a prayer said traditionally at the end of the Rosary, a devotion which itself, in its chant like properties, (like Gregorian chants) is meant to induce a contemplative and perhaps mystical, (with a small "m") state of mind. It is also sung, often at May processions in honor of Mary. I used to be extremely partial to it, and not just because, when I was a girl, I was habitually chosen to represent Mary in those processions.
There's nothing like it in any other European religious sect.
Compare this image
of Isis and Horus to the image of the Madonna and Child.
Ed. In the interest of intellectual honesty, it just occurred to me that there were some women figures of importance in some minority American Protestant sects...Mother Ann Lee of the Shakers, Ellen White of the Seventh Day Adventists, and some prominent Quaker women. Still not quite the same, however.