Commire, Anne, and Deborah Klezmer, editors. Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Yorkin Publications.
Presbyterian Church
Connections
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Cultural formation | Marie Stopes | MS
seems also to have reacted against her mother's inculcation of the hellfire beliefs of the particularly harsh brand of Presbyterianism
associated with the Wee Free or Free Church of Scotland
. Maude, Aylmer. The Authorized Life of Marie C. Stopes. Williams and Norgate. 185 |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Hamilton | She grew up Anglican
like her parents, and shared this faith with the uncle who brought her up. Her aunt, however, was a Presbyterian
, so that Elizabeth had an example of toleration before her... |
Cultural formation | Helen Maria Williams | She came from the professional class. Her family tradition was Scottish and Covenanting on her mother's side, Welsh with some Huguenot blood on her father's. She was brought up a Rational Dissenter and attended a... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Melvill | At the Presbyterian
religious gathering later called the communion of [or at] Shotts,EM
retired to pray privately in the bed (a curtained alcove), but then consented to pray aloud, while thousands gathered... |
Cultural formation | Sylvia Beach | She was the daughter of a white American Presbyterian
minister who came from nine generations of clergy. From her father's mother she learned piety and prudence. Her own mother
instilled in her a love for... |
Cultural formation | Elma Napier | EN
was exposed to a range of Christian faiths. Though her mother was Episcopalian
, the family attended a Presbyterian
kirk (the Church of Scotland) for a time during Elma's early childhood. One of her... |
Cultural formation | Jane Hume Clapperton | JHC
's large, wealthy middle-class, Scottish family had Liberal leanings, and was presumably Presbyterian
, having affiliations with the parishes of St Giles's and St Cuthbert's in Edinburgh. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Chambers, William. Story of St. Giles’ Cathedral Church. W & R Chambers. 39 |
Cultural formation | Lesley Storm | She was brought up in the Church of Scotland
. Ravenhall, Chris. “Lesley Storm’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Three Goose Quills and a Knife</span>: A Burns Play Rediscovered”. Studies in Scottish Literature, Vol. 32 , pp. 46-54. 46 |
Cultural formation | Brilliana, Lady Harley | Born into the network of elite gentry and noble families, she was even from before her marriage a fervent Puritan
, more specifically a Calvinist Presbyterian
in religion. Eales and others have applied to her... |
Cultural formation | Isabella Bird | IB
apparently told Sarah Tytler
, however, that they were also motivated by interest in, and a desire to join, the Free Kirk
which had recently separated from the Church of Scotland
. Tytler, Sarah. Three Generations. J. Murray. 267-8 |
Cultural formation | Margaret Oliphant | Her family were Dissenters
. When Margaret was fifteen the Free Church of Scotland
split from its parent body; her parents espoused the rigidly opinionated new sect. |
Cultural formation | Alison Cockburn | She belonged to the established Church of Scotland
(that is, Presbyterian). She was not, however, an orthodox Calvinist; she had enough belief to combat the atheism of her friend David Hume
, but not such... |
Cultural formation | Annie S. Swan | Her father had been impressed as a young man by the Morrisonian revival, a revolt against rigorous Calvinism. He was violently opposed to belief in predestination, and helped build a little Evangelical Union Church which... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Helme | She was apparently born into the English lower middle class. Her novels reflect an interest in Scotland, a solid British patriotism, and a dislike of Presbyterianism
compared with the Anglican
church. |
Cultural formation | Mary Somerville | MS
was born to parents who belonged to the Scottish gentry by birth and position (and were presumably white) but had little fortune; her father, Vice Admiral Sir William George Fairfax
, was held his... |
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