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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...
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...
Cultural formation Charlotte Despard
She was born into one of those families (in her case part Scottish, part Anglo-Irish) which manned the upper ranks of the British armed forces, but her upbringing was complicated by her father's death, her...
Cultural formation Lucy Aikin
LA was a middle-classEnglishwoman. She must have understood that she was white at an early age, when she took up the cause of abolition of slavery. The most important cultural influence on her was her...
Cultural formation Pearl S. Buck
PSB was born into a cohesive, coercive, and highly judgmental Presbyterian society, whose disapproval of her father's intense originality made her family close ranks against the majority of their own kind.
Spurling, Hilary. Pearl Buck in China. Simon and Schuster, 2010.
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She later...
Cultural formation May Drummond
Born into an upwardly-mobile Scottish bourgeois family and brought up in the Church of Scotland , MD was about twenty-one when she left the church, gave up their Society and Ceremonies (without, she wrote indignantly...
Cultural formation John Stuart Mill
JSM 's father was Scottish and brought up as a Presbyterian . He later rejected his religious training for Utilitarianism.
Mill, John Stuart, and John Jacob Coss. Autobiography. Columbia University Press, 1924.
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Cultural formation Helen Waddell
She was born a Presbyterian Northern Irishwoman with the distant Scottish roots that implies, into a highly educated family that was presumably white. Her biographer calls her temperament basically Irish, not Anglo-Saxon or monarchical
Blackett, Monica. The Mark of the Maker: A Portrait of Helen Waddell. Constable, 1973.
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Cultural formation Janet Schaw
JS was a white Scotswoman of the land-owning and business class. She was a Presbyterian by birth and training; as an adult she was in principle broad-minded and tolerant of religious difference, except for being...
Cultural formation Robert Burns
Burns had a strong sense of his identity both as a Scot and as a member of the labouring class. His father was both a tenant farmer and head gardener to a man of property...
Cultural formation Mary Louisa Molesworth
Though she grew up in England, MLM 's Scottish roots, on both sides of the family, were important to her. Her parents were, however, Calvinist Presbyterian s, and this faith, which she later regarded as...
Cultural formation Helen Waddell
Her father's death plunged the PresbyterianHW into a crisis of religious faith and a conviction that the goodness of God was a myth. Hating the Puritanism in which she had grown up, its stress...
Cultural formation Hannah Allen
It is not clear what sect HA was brought up in, but she was received, at about the time of her first marriage, into the London Presbyterian congregation of the influential preacher Edmund Calamy .
Graham, Elspeth et al., editors. Her Own Life. Routledge, 1989.
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Cultural formation Sarah Austin
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 ....

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1536: John Calvin, who became the single greatest...

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John Calvin , who became the single greatest influence on the Reform movement, published The Institutes of the Christian Religion.
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.
Kernohan, Robert Deans. Our Church: A Guide to the Kirk of Scotland. Saint Andrew, 1985.
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September 1607: Hugh O'Neill's rebellion in Ireland came...

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September 1607

Hugh O'Neill 's rebellion in Ireland came to a final end with the Flight of the Earls: this was the last stand of Gaelic Ireland against the colonising English.
Boylan, Henry, editor. A Dictionary of Irish Biography. Gill and Macmillan, 1978.
Kelly, Matthew. “With Bit and Bridle”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 15, 5 Aug. 2010, pp. 12-13.
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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.
Synod of Dort. http://www.ccel.org/creeds/canons-of-dort.html.

October 1636: The Scottish Privy Council was ordered to...

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October 1636

The Scottish Privy Council was ordered to issue a proclamation compelling the Scottish Kirk to use the new (Anglican ) Scottish Prayer Book designed by Laud .
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
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April 1637: Alexander Henderson of Leuchars, a godly...

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April 1637

Alexander Henderson of Leuchars, a godly leader of the Scottish Kirk , held a secret meeting with a group of Edinburgh matrons to enlist their aid in resistance against the imposition of the new (...

23 July 1637: The Anglican Book of Common Prayer was used...

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23 July 1637

The AnglicanBook of Common Prayer was used for the first time, according to Charles I 's order, at St Giles's Church in Edinburgh, the centre of the Scottish (Presbyterian ) Church.
The Covenanters: The Fifty Years Struggle 1638-1688. http://www.sorbie.net/covenanters.htm.
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
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28 February 1638: At Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh, Scotsmen...

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28 February 1638

At Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh, Scotsmen opposed to Charles I 's imposition of the AnglicanBook of Common Prayer on the Scottish (Presbyterian ) Church signed a National Covenant against such innovations: in...

December 1638: The Glasgow Assembly, a newly formed, radical...

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December 1638

The Glasgow Assembly , a newly formed, radical body representing the Scottish Kirk (some weeks after a first meeting in the cathedral at Glasgow) formally condemned Charles I 's Scottish Prayer Book.
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
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27 March-June 1639: Charles I made war on the Scottish Covenanters,...

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27 March-June 1639

Charles I made war on the ScottishCovenanters , or adherents of Presbyterianism .
Fissel, Mark Charles. The Bishops’ Wars: Charles I’s campaigns against Scotland, 1638-1640. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
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Hibbard, Caroline. Charles I and the Popish Plot. University of North Carolina Press, 1983.
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Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
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20 August 1640: The Scots (provoked by Charles I's imposition...

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20 August 1640

The Scots (provoked by Charles I 's imposition of the AnglicanBook of Common Prayer on the Scottish Presbyterian Church in 1637) invaded England, and for the second time in eighteen months their monarch marched...

September 1643: Parliament entered into the Solemn League...

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September 1643

Parliament entered into the Solemn League and Covenant with the Scots, which committed them to accepting the reformed religion (i.e. Presbyterianism ) in Scotland and establishing it in England.
Cope, Esther S. Handmaid of the Holy Spirit: Dame Eleanor Davies, Never Soe Mad a Ladie. University of Michigan Press, 1992.
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Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
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6 August 1647: Cromwell's New Model Army marched on London...

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6 August 1647

Cromwell 's New Model Army marched on London to quell an attempted Presbyterian counter-revolution.
Morrill, John. “The Stuarts (1603-1688)”. Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, edited by Kenneth O. Morgan, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 286-51.
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Woolrych, Austin. “The Civil Wars 1640-1649”. Stuart England, edited by Blair Worden, Phaidon, 1986, pp. 93-119.
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27 January 1649: Ann or Anne Fairfax (wife of the former parliamentary...

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27 January 1649

Ann or Anne Fairfax (wife of the former parliamentary commander Sir Thomas Fairfax ) made her second verbal intervention in the trial of Charles I .
Nevitt, Marcus. “Elizabeth Poole Writes the Regicide”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
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, No. 2, 2002, pp. 233-48.
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22 May 1661: The common hangman at London publicly burned...

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22 May 1661

The common hangman at London publicly burned the Covenant with the Scots, as a symbol of stamping out Presbyterianism in England.
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
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7 December 1666: More than a hundred Covenanters were found...

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7 December 1666

More than a hundred Covenanters were found guilty of rebellion and sentenced to be hanged with particular brutality from the Mercat Cross in Edinburgh.
The Covenanters: The Fifty Years Struggle 1638-1688. http://www.sorbie.net/covenanters.htm.

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