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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | May Drummond | She had two brothers with successful public careers. George Drummond
, who was more than twenty years her elder, had worked on the terms of the Union of Scotland and England before she was born... |
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 | Charlotte Dempster | CD
grew up in the Church of Scotland
, but converted to Roman Catholicism
in 1891 after a decade living in France. Dempster, Charlotte. The Manners of My Time. Editor Knox, Alice, Grant Richards. 7 |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Delaval | ED
possessed an impressive royalist pedigree, Scottish on her father's side, English on her mother's She was born into the nobility, during the final stages of the English Civil War which temporarily deprived this group... |
Cultural formation | Maria De Fleury | MDF
was a fervent Protestant, who had dealings with the sect of Baptists
, as well as attending an Independent
or Presbyterian
congregation headed by John Towers
(who wrote one of the prefaces to her... |
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... |
Cultural formation | Alison Cockburn | She belonged to the established Church of Scotland
(that is, Presbyterian). She was not, however, an orthodox Calvinist; she had enough belief to combat the atheism of her friend David Hume
, but not such... |
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 et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Chambers, William. Story of St. Giles’ Cathedral Church. W & R Chambers. 39 |
Textual Features | Katherine Chidley | The title exhorts him to begin the new yeare, with new fruits of love, first to God, and then to his brethren. English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Katherine Chidley | |
Textual Production | Katherine Chidley | KC
published with her initials a broadside entitled Good Counsell, to the Petitioners for Presbyterian
Government. English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/. |
Cultural formation | Catherine Carswell | She grew up in a strictly Scottish Presbyterian
environment. According to her son John Carswell, CC
's parents were God-fearing middle-class Glaswegians and Wee Frees: Carswell, John, and Catherine Carswell. “Introduction”. Open the Door!, Virago, p. v - xvii. vi |
Family and Intimate relationships | Catherine Carswell | Both of CC
's grandfathers were ministers who left the Church of Scotland
in May 1843 in the Disruption over the issue of state interference with the appointment of ministers to parishes. They gave up... |
Cultural formation | Thomas Carlyle | TC
's family belonged to a dissenting branch of the Presbyterian church
. Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press. |
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