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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 | Ivy Compton-Burnett | Both parents came from Dissenting
backgrounds; Ivy's maternal grandfather was a fervent Methodist
. She herself, after inventing fictitious deities as a child and being baptised and confirmed in the Anglican
church, chose from an... |
Cultural formation | Amelia Opie | She came from a cultured, financially comfortable middle-class but Unitarian
English family. Her class status meant that even after she converted from Dissent
to Quakerism
, Opie, Amelia. “Introduction”. Adeline Mowbray, edited by Shelley King and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, p. i - xxix. xxxviii |
Cultural formation | Margiad Evans | ME
wrote that she hated many of the forms of Christianity and other religions . . . . because of the sacrifice at the centre of them—the sacrificial blood. This hatred was connected with her... |
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 | Celia Fiennes | CF
's family were upper-class, linked to the nobility: distinguished anti-monarchists and dissenters
. She took her religion seriously: at the sight of a monument to Fulke Greville
which boasted his friendship with Sir Philip Sidney |
Cultural formation | Eleanor Tatlock | She was a middle-class Englishwoman, fervently Evangelical and in sympathy with Dissenters
, who nevertheless continued to attend or at least embrace the sacraments of the Anglican church
. Ashfield, Andrew. Email to Isobel Grundy about Eleanor Tatlock. Tatlock, Eleanor. Poems. S. Burton. 2: 278 |
Cultural formation | Mary Taylor | |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Gilding | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Gawthorpe | |
Occupation | Hannah More | Bere had already preached against Young; he now demanded his dismissal. At this point, unfortunately, Patty More
's journal of the period ends. Young was encouraging his adult pupils to extemporary prayer—something strongly disapproved by... |
Author summary | Elizabeth Bury | EB
was a seventeenth-century woman whose religious background (radical Anglican
, which after the Restoration became Dissenting
) encouraged her to acquire a scholarly education. Her spiritual life embraced the practice of diary- and... |
Textual Features | Catherine Hubback | The later dangers which Agnes faces are chiefly theological: she moves towards Dissent
and specifically Presbyterianism
, but returns to the Church of England
, saved in part by a copy of The Christian Year... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Warren | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Evelyn Underhill | This traces mystical beliefs and practice from the Bible, through the early days of Christianity, the medieval Catholic
mysticism of England and various European countries, to seventeenth-century Protestant
beliefs and practices, and finally to... |
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