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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... |
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 | 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 | Charlotte Despard | She was born into one of those families (in her case part Scottish, part Anglo-Irish) which manned the upper ranks of the British armed forces, but her upbringing was complicated by her father's death, her... |
Cultural formation | May Drummond | Born into an upwardly-mobile Scottish bourgeois family and brought up in the Church of Scotland
, MD
was about twenty-one when she left the church, gave up their Society and Ceremonies (without, she wrote indignantly... |
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... |
Cultural formation | Sara Jeannette Duncan | SJD
was strongly influenced by a Calvinist, Liberal, Scottish father and attended Zion Presbyterian
Church in her hometown. Her mother brought Irish influences. The legacy of her parents and of her early years in Canada... |
Cultural formation | Alison Fell | AF
was born into the Scottish working class and into the Protestant faith—the latter signified by yelling Dirty Papes at rival gangs of small children who yelled back Proddy Dogs, while neither understood what... |
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 | 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, pp. 8-31. 13 |
Reception | Monica Furlong | Travelling In, because it described in positive terms the author's experience of taking LSD, was banned from bookshops run by the Church of Scotland
. De-la-Noy, Michael. “Obituary. Monica Furlong”. The Guardian. |
Cultural formation | Anne Halkett | Her parents were both Scots of the professional classes, with links on each side to the nobility, which AH
emphasizes at a date when she had married into the latter class. Halkett, Anne et al. “The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett”. The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett, and Ann, Lady Fanshawe, edited by John Loftis and John Loftis, Clarendon Press, pp. 9-87. 9-10 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Halkett | In this retrospective work AH
expressed horror at the excesses of the Scots Presbyterians
. She also gives here the dates of birth and death of her children, details about her financial trouble with her... |
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... |
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