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Cultural formation | Pearl S. Buck | PSB
was born into a cohesive, coercive, and highly judgmental Presbyterian
society, whose disapproval of her father's intense originality made her family close ranks against the majority of their own kind. Spurling, Hilary. Pearl Buck in China. Simon and Schuster. 42 |
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 | 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 | Lucy Hutchinson | She grew up in the Puritan
part of the Anglican
faith. She came to share some of the beliefs of the Baptist
s, and later still of the Presbyterian
s or Independents
. She then... |
Cultural formation | Hannah Allen | It is not clear what sect HA
was brought up in, but she was received, at about the time of her first marriage, into the London Presbyterian
congregation of the influential preacher Edmund Calamy
. Graham, Elspeth et al., editors. Her Own Life. Routledge. 201, 209n3 |
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 | Robert Burns | Burns had a strong sense of his identity both as a Scot and as a member of the labouring class. His father was both a tenant farmer and head gardener to a man of property... |
Cultural formation | Sarah Savage | SS
was a Welshwoman but with strong ties to England, belonging to the professional classes but accustomed to the stigma of Nonconformity
in a society where the Established Church was a vital plank in the... |
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 | 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 | Sheila Kaye-Smith | From childhood SKS
was fervently religious. Her parents were Anglicans
(though her mother had been brought up a Presbyterian
). Walker, Dorothea. Sheila Kaye-Smith. Twayne. 18 |
Cultural formation | Sarah Austin | SA
came from a presumably white, professional, English Liberal background; hers was one of the most prominent dissenting
families in Norwich, known for their talent and energy and their many contributions to .... |
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 | Elizabeth Bury | Brought up in the Church of England
, she left the church in the Restoration period, with her stepfather and the rest of her family, to become a Dissenter
. She remembered that she was... |
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... |
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