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She was apparently born into the English lower middle class. Her novels reflect an interest in Scotland, a solid British patriotism, and a dislike of Presbyterianism compared with the Anglican church.

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...

She was born a Dissenter and until her marriage attended the Presbyterian church in East Bond Street, Leicester. John Wesley visited the Coltman household during her youth. Later, during her widowhood, she became a Quaker .

Susanna's stepfather, whose name was Harcourt Leighton , was a Shropshire man whose religious and political allegiances were the opposite of her royalist father's. He was a Presbyterian in religion, and when the Civil War...

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...

As a member of the Council of State (instituted after the king 's death as chief executive body) John Hutchinson found himself with power over his old opposites and enemies of . . . the...

She grew up in the Puritan part of the Anglican faith. She came to share some of the beliefs of the Baptist s, and later still of the Presbyterian s or Independents . She then...

From childhood SKS was fervently religious. Her parents were Anglicans (though her mother had been brought up a Presbyterian ). She was attracted to the idea of self-sacrifice, though not to the obedience and...

AL was Presbyterian but also studied Hinduism and Buddhism. She believed that she was too good a Christian not to be something of a Buddhist, and too good a Buddhist not to be something...

A Scotswoman whose parents both came from industrial Lanarkshire, Lochhead describes her family as posh working class—my father wore a shirt and tie to work but he'd never have described himself as middle class...

AMM was a Presbyterian like her parents (both Scottish born). Her moral outlook was inflected by liberal Christianity, and she actively supported Presbyterian missions in India. She was strongly influenced by the Social Gospel movement...

SM came from the Scottish middle class, though her father sometimes worked at manual jobs while she was growing up. She says she was brought up with quite liberal values but with a Presbyterian moral...

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 .

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.) Her father was English...

EM was a staunch Scottish Presbyterian whose surviving poems and letters almost all relate to the efforts of James the Sixth and First to impose episcopacy and other changes on the Kirk. Their religious content...