Presbyterian 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...

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...

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...

EW was a Scotswoman of the lower classes who became a godly, fervent Presbyterian , Covenanter and anti-Episcopalian. She writes that for some years she satisfied my self with the Pharisees Religion, until she...

Her family were Dissenters . When Margaret was fifteen the Free Church of Scotland split from its parent body; her parents espoused the rigidly opinionated new sect.

Though little is known about her early religious experiences, she brought up her daughters as members of the Free Church of Scotland . According to her daughter Marie , CS raised them in the...

AB sprang from two different cultures. Her mother was a white Southern American from before the Civil War and in religion an Episcopalian (in English terms an Anglican), while her father was English and was...

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...

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...

EW was not able to rest peacefully in her commitment to the Church ofScotland . Within four months she found herself troubled with Unbelief. Reading Francis Spirahurt me more than all the Books...

The Webster children were baptised Presbyterian s, as befitted their Scottish heritage, but attended the local Anglican parish church. Flora was the only one of the family to be confirmed as an Anglican.

Her family was Presbyterian and apparently of Irish ancestry. She was raised in a lower middle-class family in a rural Irish town, and was presumably white. Accounts of her great-grandfather's squandered estates give Browne's family...

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.

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...

EM was an upper-class Scotswoman who was born into the Church of Scotland and remained a fervent and radical member of it. She is presumed to have undergone a conversion experience within this church, and...