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Cultural formation Sarah Savage
SS was a Welshwoman but with strong ties to England, belonging to the professional classes but accustomed to the stigma of Nonconformity in a society where the Established Church was a vital plank in the...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Bury
Brought up in the Church of England , she left the church in the Restoration period, with her stepfather and the rest of her family, to become a Dissenter . She remembered that she was...
Cultural formation Lucy Hutchinson
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...
Cultural formation Sara Jeannette Duncan
SJD was strongly influenced by a Calvinist, Liberal, Scottish father and attended Zion Presbyterian Church in her hometown. Her mother brought Irish influences. The legacy of her parents and of her early years in Canada...
Cultural formation L. M. Montgomery
LMM was a white Canadian of Scottish and English heritage. In matters of religion, she said she was sceptical of the notion of a higher authority and once described herself as having no faith—a peculiar...
Cultural formation Queen Victoria
QV was a devout Anglican , as befitted the head of the Church of England . (When in Scotland, however, she attended the local Presbyterian , that is Church of Scotland , parish church.)
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. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Cultural formation Sheila Kaye-Smith
From childhood SKS was fervently religious. Her parents were Anglicans (though her mother had been brought up a Presbyterian ).
Walker, Dorothea. Sheila Kaye-Smith. Twayne, 1980.
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She was attracted to the idea of self-sacrifice, though not to the obedience and...
Cultural formation Alison Fell
AF was born into the Scottish working class and into the Protestant faith—the latter signified by yelling Dirty Papes at rival gangs of small children who yelled back Proddy Dogs, while neither understood what...
Cultural formation L. M. Montgomery
During the 1920s, LMM and her husband fought against the proposed merging of the Presbyterian and Methodist churches. In January 1925, the Leaksdale church, under the leadership of Macdonald, voted against union.
Rubio, Mary, and Elizabeth Waterston. Writing a Life: L.M. Montgomery. ECW Press, 1995.
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Cultural formation Anna Letitia Barbauld
Following the religious traditions of her family, she was a Presbyterian Dissenter. She married a student of her father's who had converted to Presbyterian Dissent and subsequently became a minister to Dissenting congregations. ALB became...
Cultural formation Amanda McKittrick Ros
AMKR 's parents were from Northern Irish farming stock, and she was a staunch Presbyterian . Her father's teaching had a serious influence on her, and she was persuaded at an early age that she...
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, 1986, p. v - xvii.
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Cultural formation Anna Leonowens
AL was Presbyterian but also studied Hinduism and Buddhism.
Dow, Leslie Smith. Anna Leonowens: A Life Beyond The King and I. Pottersfield, 1991.
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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...
Cultural formation Susan Ferrier
Though her parents had struggled through years of poverty early in their marriage, SF spent her childhood among the wealthy and titled, who made up her father's employers and associates. The family was Scottish and...

Timeline

13 August 1670: The British government declared that in Scotland...

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13 August 1670

The British government declared that in Scotland attendance at conventicles (the services conducted in fields or barns by ejected Presbyterian ministers) was punishable by death.
The Covenanters: The Fifty Years Struggle 1638-1688. http://www.sorbie.net/covenanters.htm.

October 1690: William III addressed the General Assembly...

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October 1690

William III addressed the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland , speaking against extremism in the newly established national church. The more radical Covenanting Cameronians thereupon split from the main body.
“Act of Union 1707”. United Kingdom Parliament, 2007.

1725: Allan Ramsay established a circulating library...

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1725

Allan Ramsay established a circulating library in Edinburgh which may have been the first in Britain. Another opened in Bath the same year.
Nicholson, Colin. “"Of Eminent Significancy": Allan Ramsay’s ‘British’ Poetics and Post-Union Construction of Cultural Space”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
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, No. 2, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 2002, pp. 203-16.
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Feminist Companion Archive.

June 1749: Elizabeth Bennis (born Patton), a Limerick...

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June 1749

Elizabeth Bennis (born Patton), a Limerick merchant's wife in her early twenties, converted to Methodism .
Dyer, Serena. “Review”. Women’s History Magazine, No. 74, 1 Mar.–31 May 2014, pp. 37-8.

March 1763: At Tipperary in Ireland about 14,000 Catholic...

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March 1763

At Tipperary in Ireland about 14,000 Catholic farm workers rose in protest against working conditions and evictions.
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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17 April 1774: The inaugural service was held at the first...

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17 April 1774

The inaugural service was held at the first Unitarian chapel, in Essex Street, London.
Jebb, John. “Memoirs”. The Works, Theological, Medical, Political, and Miscellaneous, of John Jebb, M.D. F.R.S., edited by John Disney, T. Cadell, J. Johnson, and J. Stockdale; J. and J. Merrill, 1787, pp. 1: 1 - 227.
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Webb, Robert Kiefer. “Miracles in English Unitarian Thought”. Enlightenment, Passion, Modernity: Historical Essays in European Thought and Culture, edited by Mark S. Micale and Robert L. Dietle, Stanford University Press, 2000, pp. 113-30.
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11 May 1792: Edmund Burke in his Speech on the Petition...

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11 May 1792

Edmund Burke in his Speech on the Petition of the Unitarians argued that Unitarians, who denied the doctrine of the Trinity, could not claim toleration like Catholics , Presbyterian s, Quakers , and others.
De Bruyn, Frans. “Anti-Semitism, Millenarianism, and Radical Dissent in Edmund Burkes Reflections on the Revolution in FranceEighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
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, No. 4, 1 June 2001– 2024, pp. 577-00.
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18 May 1843: In what was called the Disruption, led by...

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18 May 1843

In what was called the Disruption, led by Thomas Chalmers , roughly a third of the ministers and half the members of the established Presbyterian Church of Scotland seceded on the issue of a...

16 August 1845-29 May 1846: Frederick Douglass, ex-slave and anti-slavery...

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16 August 1845-29 May 1846

Frederick Douglass , ex-slave and anti-slavery campaigner, visited Britain: Ireland, Scotland, and England.
Huggins, Nathan Irvin. Slave and Citizen: The Life of Frederick Douglass. Little, Brown, 1980.
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Douglass, Frederick. Frederick Douglass on Women’s Rights. Editor Foner, Philip S., Greenwood Press, 1976.
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Halbersleben, Karen I. Women’s Participation in the British Antislavery Movement, 1824-1865. Edwin Mellen Press, 1993.
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: The first starvation deaths attributable...

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Winter 1845-6

The first starvation deaths attributable to the potato blight in Ireland were reported; the Great Famine began in earnest.
Adelman, Paul. Great Britain and the Irish Question 1800-1922. Hodder and Stoughton, 1996.
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Jack, Ian. “A Country Emptied”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 5, 7 Mar. 2019, pp. 19-22.
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1900: The Free Kirk (dating from 1843) and several...

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1900

The Free Kirk (dating from 1843) and several earlier seceders from the Church of Scotland joined to form the United Free Church of Scotland .
Kernohan, Robert Deans. Our Church: A Guide to the Kirk of Scotland. Saint Andrew, 1985.
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1900: The Free Kirk (dating from 1843) and several...

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1900

The Free Kirk (dating from 1843) and several earlier seceders from the Church of Scotland joined to form the United Free Church of Scotland .
Kernohan, Robert Deans. Our Church: A Guide to the Kirk of Scotland. Saint Andrew, 1985.
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1969: Catherine McConnachie became the first woman...

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1969

Catherine McConnachie became the first woman ordained in the Church of Scotland .
“Women in the Church of Scotland”. Church of Scotland: Organisation.

May 2004: Dr Alison Elliot took up her post as the...

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May 2004

Dr Alison Elliot took up her post as the first woman Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland .
“Women in the Church of Scotland”. Church of Scotland: Organisation.

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