Breeze, Jean Binta. The Fifth Figure. Bloodaxe Books.
Breeze 30
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Characters | Laura Ormiston Chant | Sellcuts' Manager cannot be isolated from Chant's then-still-notorious attack on the Empire Theatre
, as well as her belief in temperance. From Mora's narrative to the idealized Palace of Amusements that reflects Chant's earlier writings... |
Cultural formation | Enid Blyton | She was brought up a Baptist
(baptised into that church at the age of thirteen). She later moved away from the god of her childhood (a god of vengeance, she said). Very much wishing to... |
Cultural formation | Jean Binta Breeze | JBB
is a Jamaican of black African descent and of the professional class. (She also has white forebears, a fact which does not please her.) Breeze, Jean Binta. The Fifth Figure. Bloodaxe Books. Breeze 30 |
Cultural formation | Pandita Ramabai | While living in Silchar, she studied Christianity under the Baptist
missionary Isaac Allen
, much to her husband's disapproval. As a widow she carried these studies further. Burton, Antoinette. At the Heart of the Empire. University of California Press. 80 |
Cultural formation | Hesba Stretton | |
Cultural formation | Anna Trapnel | She experienced a spiritual awakening after hearing a sermon by Hugh Peter
when she was about nineteen, then in 1650 joined the Baptist
congregation of John Simpson
. Later she moved to the sect of... |
Cultural formation | Dinah Mulock Craik | |
Cultural formation | Rebecca Travers | She was originally a Baptist
and was converted to Quakerism
by James Nayler
. She remained loyal to Nayler, even after he was disgraced and condemned by George Fox
. RT
organised the first women's... |
Cultural formation | Susanna Watts | Although she was baptised in the Church ofEngland
, SW
was remarkable for her principled empathy and personal friendships with Dissenters
. Aucott, Shirley. Susanna Watts (1768 to 1842): author of Leicester’s first guide, abolitionist and bluestocking. Shirley Aucott. 39 |
Cultural formation | Sarah Davy | SD
, apparently by birth an Englishwoman of the middling ranks and an Anglican
, converted, as one of the most significant actions of her life, to join an Independent
or Baptist
congregation. Some modern... |
Cultural formation | Katharine Evans | KE
grew up an Anglican
, but was clearly a religious seeker, since she joined the Baptists
, then the Independents
, before becoming one of the Society of Friends
very soon after its inception... |
Cultural formation | Anne Wentworth | She was or became a fervent Anabaptist, the sect from which the Baptists
of today descend. But for twenty years, she later wrote, though she had a high opinion of her own religious state, she... |
Cultural formation | Isabella Neil Harwood | |
Cultural formation | Anne Wentworth | |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Hooton | Elizabeth was born to a Baptist
family, and was very active within the movement. She was already an established preacher well before she became perhaps the first person to join George Fox
in the embryonic... |
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