Lyall, Edna. The Burges Letters: A Record of Child Life in the Sixties. Longmans, Green, and Co.
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Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Edna Lyall | |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Caroline Frances Cornwallis | The letters in Christian Sects (which is headed by three quotations, one of them from St John's Gospel) are said to have been exchanged between one of the editors of the Small Books, and... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Wentworth | Again, AW
comes straight to the point: her persecutions at the hands of her hard-hearted Yoak-Fellow and of eminent Baptists
are, she says, well known to Christians and even to her enemies around the city... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Wentworth | This seems to be the testimony that AW
had promised in her earlier printed works. It repeats her history of personal and theological controversy, and likens her Baptist
opponents to Papists. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Textual Production | Sarah Davy | Following the early death of SD
this year, her religious meditation or conversion narrative (Baptist
or Independent
) was posthumously published as Heaven Realiz'd. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
| Author summary | Anne Wentworth | |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Constance Naden | Her maternal grandfather, J. C. Woodhill
, was a retired jeweller, a Baptist
elder, and a man of literary interests who possessed an extensive and eclectic library: a great book-lover in his retirement Hughes, William Richard et al. Constance Naden: A Memoir. Bickers and Son. 13 |
| Cultural formation | Clara Balfour | Herself baptised (after her father's death) into the Church of England
, she later converted and joined the Baptists
with the rest of her family in 1840. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Cultural formation | Flora Klickmann | FK
grew up English, but was the daughter of an immigrant originally from Germany, and may have had a French grandmother, wife of the grandfather who had been born at Stettin in 1813. Her surname... |
| Cultural formation | Mary Anne Barker | Though she was and remained, she said, a staunch Churchwoman myself, and yield to no one in pure love and reverence for my own form of worship, Barker, Mary Anne. A Year’s Housekeeping in South Africa. Macmillan. 196 |
| Cultural formation | Agnes Beaumont | AB
chose her own faith, joining first the Independents and then the Baptists
. Her family belonged to the Church of England
(though her elder brother seems to have been a dissenter like herself). |
| Cultural formation | Carson McCullers | CMC
was a white middle-class American (of Irish, French Huguenot, and British descent), who grew up attending the Baptist
church and was baptised into it when she was nine. Dews, Carlos L., and Carson McCullers. “Chronology and Notes”. Complete Novels, Library of America, Literary Classics of the United States, pp. 807-27. 807 |
| Cultural formation | Agnes Beaumont | She attended the Baptist
Meeting at Tilehouse Street in Hitchin, where the minister was John Wilson
, and to which she made a donation of two pounds fifteen shillings for building in 1692. Beaumont, Agnes. “Introduction”. The Narrative of the Persecutions of Agnes Beaumont, edited by Vera J. Camden, Colleagues Press, pp. 1-33. 30 |
| Cultural formation | Constance Naden | She was baptised into the Church of England
but while she lived with them attended, as they did, several different Baptist
chapels. CN
later became a student of science and a sceptic in matters of... |
| Cultural formation | Enid Blyton | She was brought up a Baptist
(baptised into that church at the age of thirteen). She later moved away from the god of her childhood (a god of vengeance, she said). Very much wishing to... |
Timeline
By May 1619: The Calvinist Synod of Dort in Holland confirmed...
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By May 1619
The Calvinist Synod of Dort in Holland confirmed the doctrine of total human depravity, setting it at the head of their articles of doctrine.
Spring-summer 1647: A London Baptist girl in her teens, Sarah...
Women writers item
Spring-summer 1647
A LondonBaptist
girl in her teens, Sarah Wight
, fell into a months-long trance, the climax of four years of spiritual turmoil about which she later published a pamphlet.
January 1654: The radical Baptist/Fifth Monarchist Vavasor...
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January 1654
The radical Baptist
/Fifth MonarchistVavasor Powell
was tried by the Council of State
at Whitehall, London.
Probably 1659: Margaret Abbott, a convert from the Church...
Women writers item
Probably 1659
Margaret Abbott
, a convert from the Church of England
to the Baptists
, published with her name her only text, A Testimonyagainst the False Teachers of this Generation.
27 December 1831: A major slave uprising, the Baptist War,...
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27 December 1831
A major slave uprising, the Baptist
War, Christmas Rebellion, or Great Jamaican Slave Revolt, began with the setting afire of the Kensington Estate. Over the next two weeks it spread to several more parishes, causing...
1925: The Baptist Church officially recognised...
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1925
The Baptist Church
officially recognised women pastors.
1957: The Baptist Church allowed women pastors...
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1957
The Baptist Church
allowed women pastors to use the title of minister.
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