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AB sprang from two different cultures. Her mother was a white Southern American from before the Civil War and in religion an Episcopalian (in English terms an Anglican), while her father was English and was...

Born into the network of elite gentry and noble families, she was even from before her marriage a fervent Puritan , more specifically a Calvinist Presbyterian in religion. Eales and others have applied to her...

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...

EW was not able to rest peacefully in her commitment to the Church ofScotland . Within four months she found herself troubled with Unbelief. Reading Francis Spirahurt me more than all the Books...

The Webster children were baptised Presbyterian s, as befitted their Scottish heritage, but attended the local Anglican parish church. Flora was the only one of the family to be confirmed as an Anglican.

Her family was Presbyterian and apparently of Irish ancestry. She was raised in a lower middle-class family in a rural Irish town, and was presumably white. Accounts of her great-grandfather's squandered estates give Browne's family...

She was apparently born into the English lower middle class. Her novels reflect an interest in Scotland, a solid British patriotism, and a dislike of Presbyterianism compared with the Anglican church.

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...

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...

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...

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...

A Presbyterian Scot of the professional class by birth, with no drop of non-Scottish blood in his veins, JB became to some extent anglicized by spending most of his adult life in England.

CD grew up in the Church of Scotland , but converted to Roman Catholicism in 1891 after a decade living in France.

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

MS was born to parents who belonged to the Scottish gentry by birth and position (and were presumably white) but had little fortune; her father, Vice Admiral Sir William George Fairfax , was held his...