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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 | 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 | Ann Bridge | AB
sprang from two different cultures. Her mother was a white Southern American from before the Civil War and in religion an Episcopalian
(in English terms an Anglican), while her father was English and was... |
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... |
Cultural formation | Frances Browne | Her family was Presbyterian
and apparently of Irish ancestry. She was raised in a lower middle-class family in a rural Irish town, and was presumably white. Accounts of her great-grandfather's squandered estates give Browne's family... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Delaval | ED
possessed an impressive royalist pedigree, Scottish on her father's side, English on her mother's She was born into the nobility, during the final stages of the English Civil War which temporarily deprived this group... |
Cultural formation | Sarah Tytler | The Keddies raised their children in the Calvinistic, Presbyterian Church of Scotland. After 1843, when the Free Kirk
, or Free Church of Scotland, seceded (on the issue of the right of congregations to choose... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Melvill | EM
was an upper-class Scotswoman who was born into the Church of Scotland
and remained a fervent and radical member of it. She is presumed to have undergone a conversion experience within this church, and... |
Cultural formation | John Buchan | A Presbyterian
Scot of the professional class by birth, with no drop of non-Scottish blood in his veins, JB
became to some extent anglicized by spending most of his adult life in England. |
Cultural formation | Winifred Peck | |
Cultural formation | Charlotte Dempster | CD
grew up in the Church of Scotland
, but converted to Roman Catholicism
in 1891 after a decade living in France. Dempster, Charlotte. The Manners of My Time. Editor Knox, Alice, Grant Richards. 7 |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Heyrick | She was born a Dissenter
and until her marriage attended the Presbyterian
church in East Bond Street, Leicester. John Wesley
visited the Coltman household during her youth. Later, during her widowhood, she became a Quaker
. Beale, Catherine Hutton, editor. Catherine Hutton and Her Friends. Cornish Brothers. 61 Aucott, Shirley. Women of Courage, Vision and Talent: lives in Leicester 1780 to 1925. Shirley Aucott. 121 |
Cultural formation | Maria De Fleury | MDF
was a fervent Protestant, who had dealings with the sect of Baptists
, as well as attending an Independent
or Presbyterian
congregation headed by John Towers
(who wrote one of the prefaces to her... |
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