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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Characters | Elizabeth Helme | The title-page bears an epigraph from James Thomson
, about the moral struggle of honour and aspiration against ease and luxury. It opens on an old-fashioned couple in their great Yorkshire house, Mr and Mrs... |
Characters | Sophie Veitch | This well-characterized and engaging novel puts forward the idea that passion is necessary although dangerous if uncontrolled: an idea anticipating Veitch's later sensation novel The Dean's Daughter. The story is set at a town... |
Characters | Sophie Veitch | Though the title spotlights her alone, the heroine is set firmly in her social milieu: a coastal part of Scotland with a luxury estate on an offshore island called Moyle, all unknown territory to... |
Cultural formation | Anna Leonowens | AL
was Presbyterian
but also studied Hinduism and Buddhism. Dow, Leslie Smith. Anna Leonowens: A Life Beyond The King and I. Pottersfield, 1991. 126 |
Cultural formation | Marianne Moore | MM
was presumably white, and belonged to the American upper middle class, although she did not grow up with money. Her family were Presbyterian
s, and she was a believing Christian and active Presbyterian throughout... |
Cultural formation | Thomas Carlyle | TC
's family belonged to a dissenting branch of the Presbyterian church
. Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press, 1985. |
Cultural formation | Janet Schaw | JS
was a white Scotswoman of the land-owning and business class. She was a Presbyterian
by birth and training; as an adult she was in principle broad-minded and tolerant of religious difference, except for being... |
Cultural formation | Susan Ferrier | Though her parents had struggled through years of poverty early in their marriage, SF
spent her childhood among the wealthy and titled, who made up her father's employers and associates. The family was Scottish and... |
Cultural formation | Elisabeth Wast | EW
, in Edinburgh on a fast day, first took the sacrament in the Church of Scotland
. Wast, Elisabeth. Memoirs; or, Spiritual Exercises. 1724. 6 |
Cultural formation | Liz Lochhead | A Scotswoman whose parents both came from industrial Lanarkshire, Lochhead describes her family as posh working class—my father wore a shirt and tie to work but he'd never have described himself as middle class... |
Cultural formation | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Following the religious traditions of her family, she was a Presbyterian
Dissenter. She married a student of her father's who had converted to Presbyterian Dissent and subsequently became a minister to Dissenting congregations. ALB
became... |
Cultural formation | Hannah More | HM
had almost no contact with the Methodists, but despite her strong commitment to the Church of England
she was broadly tolerant of classical Nonconformity
. During the Blagdon controversy she admitted in a letter... |
Cultural formation | Catherine Carswell | She grew up in a strictly Scottish Presbyterian
environment. According to her son John Carswell, CC
's parents were God-fearing middle-class Glaswegians and Wee Frees: Carswell, John, and Catherine Carswell. “Introduction”. Open the Door!, Virago, 1986, p. v - xvii. vi |
Cultural formation | Susan Ferrier | In her late years, SF
turned to Evangelical interests, and joined the Free Church
, the stricter wing of the Scottish Presbyterians
. She was very much interested in the rise of the missionary movement... |
Cultural formation | Celia Fiennes | CF
, with six other people, registered a house at Highwood Hill near Barnet in Middlesex for legally holding Presbyterian
meetings. Fiennes, Celia. “Editorial Note and Introduction”. The Illustrated Journeys of Celia Fiennes, edited by Christopher Morris, Macdonald; Webb and Bower, 1982, pp. 8-31. 13 |
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