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Characters | Elizabeth Helme | The title-page bears an epigraph from James Thomson
, about the moral struggle of honour and aspiration against ease and luxury. It opens on an old-fashioned couple in their great Yorkshire house, Mr and Mrs... |
Characters | Sophie Veitch | This well-characterized and engaging novel puts forward the idea that passion is necessary although dangerous if uncontrolled: an idea anticipating Veitch's later sensation novel The Dean's Daughter. The story is set at a town... |
Characters | Sophie Veitch | Though the title spotlights her alone, the heroine is set firmly in her social milieu: a coastal part of Scotland with a luxury estate on an offshore island called Moyle, all unknown territory to... |
Cultural formation | Charlotte Stopes | Though little is known about her early religious experiences, she brought up her daughters as members of the Free Church of Scotland
. Commire, Anne, and Deborah Klezmer, editors. Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Yorkin Publications, 2002. 850 |
Cultural formation | Anne Halkett | Her parents were both Scots of the professional classes, with links on each side to the nobility, which AH
emphasizes at a date when she had married into the latter class. Halkett, Anne, Anne Halkett, and Ann, Lady Fanshawe. “The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett”. The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett, and Ann, Lady Fanshawe, edited by John Loftis and John Loftis, Clarendon Press, 1979, pp. 9 - 87. 9-10 |
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 | Sara Maitland | Brought up a Presbyterian
, SM
was received into the Anglo-Catholic church in 1972 (the year of her marriage and of her husband's appointment as a parish priest) and later became a Roman Catholic
. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Bathurst | She did this to the Presbyterian
congregation of Samuel Annesley
, but they had not patience to hear her, and dragged her and her sister away, although she had patiently waited until the end of... |
Cultural formation | Iris Murdoch | IM
was born Irish but grew up in England from babyhood, with holidays in Ireland. Her mother's family, with a history as Anglo-Irish adherents of the Church of Ireland
, had come down in the... |
Cultural formation | Marie Stopes | MS
seems also to have reacted against her mother's inculcation of the hellfire beliefs of the particularly harsh brand of Presbyterianism
associated with the Wee Free or Free Church of Scotland
. Commire, Anne, and Deborah Klezmer, editors. Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Yorkin Publications, 2002. Maude, Aylmer. The Authorized Life of Marie C. Stopes. Williams and Norgate, 1924. 185 |
Cultural formation | Olivia Manning | OM
's family was lower-middle-class. (The Braybrookes' biography remarks that having come from this narrowest, most prejudiced class in England . . . . she had successfully declassed herself.) Braybrooke, Neville, and Isobel English. Olivia Manning: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 2004. 187 |
Cultural formation | Grisell Murray | GM
was born into the Scottish Presbyterian
gentry; her parents were strongly committed to their religion and the generation before them had suffered as Covenanters
for their commitment. In maturity she inhabited the slightly awkward... |
Cultural formation | Jane Hume Clapperton | JHC
's large, wealthy middle-class, Scottish family had Liberal leanings, and was presumably Presbyterian
, having affiliations with the parishes of St Giles's and St Cuthbert's in Edinburgh. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Chambers, William. Story of St. Giles’ Cathedral Church. W & R Chambers, 1879. 39 |
Cultural formation | Lesley Storm | She was brought up in the Church of Scotland
. Ravenhall, Chris. “Lesley Storm’s Three Goose Quills and a Knife: A Burns Play Rediscovered”. Studies in Scottish Literature, pp. 46 -54. 46 |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Hamilton | She grew up Anglican
like her parents, and shared this faith with the uncle who brought her up. Her aunt, however, was a Presbyterian
, so that Elizabeth had an example of toleration before her... |