Presbyterian Church

The title-page bears an epigraph from James Thomson , about the moral struggle of honour and aspiration against ease and luxury. It opens on an old-fashioned couple in their great Yorkshire house, Mr and Mrs...

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...

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...

TC 's family belonged to a dissenting branch of the Presbyterian church .

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...

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...

AL was Presbyterian but also studied Hinduism and Buddhism. 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...

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...

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: the familiar name for members of the Free Church of Scotland

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...

EW , in Edinburgh on a fast day, first took the sacrament in the Church of Scotland .

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...

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...

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...

Though she attended a Presbyterian school, MS was rarely taken to church. She was terribly interested in the scriptures and in Christ as a romantic figure, but subscribed to no religious faith. She says...