Kennedy, Deborah. Helen Maria Williams and the Age of Revolution. Bucknell University Press.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Helen Maria Williams | HMW
was brought up by her mother, Helen Hay, who came from Naughton in Scotland, was known for her Presbyterian
piety, Kennedy, Deborah. Helen Maria Williams and the Age of Revolution. Bucknell University Press. 23 Wilmot, Catherine. An Irish Peer on the Continent. Editor Sadleir, Thomas U., Williams and Norgate. 39 Woodward, Lionel D. Hélène-Maria Williams et ses amis. Slatkine Reprints. 11-13 Wilmot, Catherine. An Irish Peer on the Continent. Editor Sadleir, Thomas U., Williams and Norgate. 38-9 |
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. 6 |
Cultural formation | Elisabeth Wast | EW
was a Scotswoman of the lower classes who became a godly, fervent Presbyterian
, Covenanter
and anti-Episcopalian. She writes that for some years she satisfied my self with the Pharisees Religion, until she... |
Cultural formation | Elisabeth Wast | EW
was not able to rest peacefully in her commitment to the Church ofScotland
. Within four months she found herself troubled with Unbelief. Wast, Elisabeth. Memoirs; or, Spiritual Exercises. 20 |
Cultural formation | Elisabeth Wast | As her piety increased she wondered whether she ought to limit herself, as a woman friend had decided to do, to hearing the preaching only of the strictest ministers, who were considering breaking with the... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elisabeth Wast | The point of EW
's book is to relate her religious experiences. She follows a chronological path, interrupting herself on occasion to add something that she forgot to mention in its proper Place. Wast, Elisabeth. Memoirs; or, Spiritual Exercises. 201 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Warren | EW
sets out here is to defend Anglican
clergymen of Presbyterian
sympathies, who were currently under attack from more more extreme reformers, and in general to defend the need for a highly educated body of... |
Cultural formation | Helen Waddell | She was born a Presbyterian
Northern Irishwoman with the distant Scottish roots that implies, into a highly educated family that was presumably white. Her biographer calls her temperament basically Irish, not Anglo-Saxon or monarchical Blackett, Monica. The Mark of the Maker: A Portrait of Helen Waddell. Constable. 35 |
Cultural formation | Helen Waddell | Her father's death plunged the PresbyterianHW
into a crisis of religious faith and a conviction that the goodness of God was a myth. Hating the Puritanism in which she had grown up, its stress... |
Cultural formation | Queen Victoria | QV
was a devout Anglican
, as befitted the head of the Church of England
. (When in Scotland, however, she attended the local Presbyterian
, that is Church of Scotland
, parish church.) |
Characters | Sophie Veitch | Though the title spotlights her alone, the heroine is set firmly in her social milieu: a coastal part of Scotland with a luxury estate on an offshore island called Moyle, all unknown territory to... |
Characters | Sophie Veitch | This well-characterized and engaging novel puts forward the idea that passion is necessary although dangerous if uncontrolled: an idea anticipating Veitch's later sensation novel The Dean's Daughter. The story is set at a town... |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Sarah Tytler | ST
's career as a writer introduced her to many leading literary figures (especially those of Scots origin) whom she entertainingly describes in Three Generations. Tytler, Sarah. Three Generations. J. Murray. 261-344 |
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