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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 | Margaret Oliphant | Her family were Dissenters
. When Margaret was fifteen the Free Church of Scotland
split from its parent body; her parents espoused the rigidly opinionated new sect. |
Cultural formation | Flora Annie Steel | 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. Powell, Violet. Flora Annie Steel: Novelist of India. Heinemann, 1981. 4, 8 |
Cultural formation | Frances Browne | 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... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Helme | 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. |
Cultural formation | Maria De Fleury | 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... |
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. 1724. 20 |
Cultural formation | Muriel Spark | Though she attended a Presbyterian
school, MS
was rarely taken to church. She was terribly interested Spark, Muriel. “My Conversion”. Critical Essays on Muriel Spark, edited by Joseph Hynes, G. K. Hall and Maxwell Macmillan, 1992, pp. 24-28. 24 |
Cultural formation | John Buchan | 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. |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Delaval | 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... |
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 | 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... |
Cultural formation | Mary Somerville | 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... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Heyrick | She was born a Dissenter
and until her marriage attended the Presbyterian
church in East Bond Street, Leicester. John Wesley
visited the Coltman household during her youth. Later, during her widowhood, she became a Quaker
. Beale, Catherine Hutton, editor. Catherine Hutton and Her Friends. Cornish Brothers, 1895. 61 Aucott, Shirley. Women of Courage, Vision and Talent: lives in Leicester 1780 to 1925. Shirley Aucott, 2008. 121 |
Cultural formation | Charlotte Dempster | CD
grew up in the Church of Scotland
, but converted to Roman Catholicism
in 1891 after a decade living in France. Dempster, Charlotte. The Manners of My Time. Editor Knox, Alice, Grant Richards, 1920. 7 |
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