Dissenters

In a letter to Elizabeth Gaskell, MT describes the house of her childhood as one of violent Dissent and Radicalism.

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 .

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...

As a member of the English professional classes and an adherent of the established Anglican church, she was presumably white and relatively privileged, but little is known of her life. Her mother's family were Dissenters .

ESR was an English middle-class dissenter or more properly Independent .

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 ....

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 , her attitudes remained worldly in comparison with those...

EG was born English and apparently white. Her somewhat obscure situation in life, with little leisure, probably indicates her membership in the lower middle class, and her marrying a Dissenter probably indicates that she was...

She grew up in great privilege and luxury, since her mother's wealth and father's income from Jamaican plantations allowed the family to live according to their rank as English gentry, particularly in her earlier years...

Mary's other grandmother spoke Yorkshire dialect like her husband, and was conservative in dress (wearing a lace net on her hair), but eclectic in religion, attending church and chapel alternately. It was from this...

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...

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...

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...

EW published Spiritual Thrift; or, Meditations Wherein Humble Christians (as in a Mirrour) May View the Verity of Their Saving Graces, a Puritan devotional pamphlet which attacks both Catholics and sectaries .

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...