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Textual Production | Elizabeth Melvill | John Welsh
was imprisoned in Blackness Castle (across the River Forth from Rosyth) in connection with the abortive Church of Scotland
General Assembly at Aberdeen. EM
wrote for him in prison A Sonnet Sent... |
Author summary | Elizabeth Melvill | EM
was a staunch Scottish Presbyterian
whose surviving poems and letters almost all relate to the efforts of James the Sixth and First
to impose episcopacy and other changes on the Kirk. Their religious content... |
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 | Elizabeth Melvill | While the Scottish parliament, meeting at Edinburgh in summer 1621, sought to wrench control of the Scottish Church
from its radical wing, anti-episcopal Presbyterian ministers gathered at nearby Sheens to await the result. There EM |
Publishing | Elizabeth Melvill | These two editions (both in English) witness the continuing importance of the text to Presbyterians
. The same century saw a total of seven reprints, with two in the early eighteenth century. The poem was... |
Cultural formation | John Stuart Mill | JSM
's father was Scottish and brought up as a Presbyterian
. He later rejected his religious training for Utilitarianism. Mill, John Stuart, and John Jacob Coss. Autobiography. Columbia University Press. 2, 27 |
Cultural formation | Mary Louisa Molesworth | Though she grew up in England, MLM
's Scottish roots, on both sides of the family, were important to her. Her parents were, however, Calvinist Presbyterian
s, and this faith, which she later regarded as... |
Cultural formation | L. M. Montgomery | LMM
was a white Canadian of Scottish and English heritage. In matters of religion, she said she was sceptical of the notion of a higher authority and once described herself as having no faith—a peculiar... |
Cultural formation | L. M. Montgomery | During the 1920s, LMM
and her husband fought against the proposed merging of the Presbyterian
and Methodist
churches. In January 1925, the Leaksdale church, under the leadership of Macdonald, voted against union. Rubio, Mary, and Elizabeth Waterston. Writing a Life: L.M. Montgomery. ECW Press. 78 |
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 | 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 | Willa Muir | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Willa Muir | She compares the parallel stories of the English Reformation under King Henry VIII
, which established the Church of England
(Anglican or Episcopalian), and the Scottish Reformation under John Knox
in 1559, which established the... |
Cultural formation | Iris Murdoch | IM
was born Irish but grew up in England from babyhood, with holidays in Ireland. Her mother's family, with a history as Anglo-Irish adherents of the Church of Ireland
, had come down in the... |
Cultural formation | Grisell Murray | GM
was born into the Scottish Presbyterian
gentry; her parents were strongly committed to their religion and the generation before them had suffered as Covenanters
for their commitment. In maturity she inhabited the slightly awkward... |
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