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 ....
Author summary
Hannah Allen
HA
was a diarist and spiritual autobiographer (of the Presbyterian
sect) of the later seventeenth century.
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.
201, 209n3
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
Brilliana Lady Harley
Born into the network of elite gentry and noble families, she was even from before her marriage a fervent Puritan
, more specifically a Calvinist Presbyterian
in religion. Eales and others have applied to her...