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Family and Intimate relationships May Drummond
She had two brothers with successful public careers. George Drummond , who was more than twenty years her elder, had worked on the terms of the Union of Scotland and England before she was born...
Family and Intimate relationships Sarah Savage
Matthew Henry (two years older than SS , and her only surviving brother) became a celebrated Presbyterian minister like his father, who was able to participate in his ordination in 1687. He was eminent both...
Education Mary Somerville
MS recalls that as a young child my mother taught me to read the Bible, and to say my prayers morning and evening; otherwise she allowed me to grow up a wild creature.
Somerville, Mary. Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville. Editor Somerville, Martha, Roberts Brothers.
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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.
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She believed that she was too good a Christian not to be something of a Buddhist, and too good a Buddhist not to be something...
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.
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 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, p. v - xvii.
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the familiar name for members of the Free Church of Scotland
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 Elisabeth Wast
EW , in Edinburgh on a fast day, first took the sacrament in the Church of Scotland .
Wast, Elisabeth. Memoirs; or, Spiritual Exercises.
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Cultural formation Agnes Maule Machar
AMM was a Presbyterian like her parents (both Scottish born). Her moral outlook was inflected by liberal Christianity, and she actively supported Presbyterian missions in India. She was strongly influenced by the Social Gospel movement...

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