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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 | Helen Waddell | She was born a Presbyterian
Northern Irishwoman with the distant Scottish roots that implies, into a highly educated family that was presumably white. Her biographer calls her temperament basically Irish, not Anglo-Saxon or monarchical Blackett, Monica. The Mark of the Maker: A Portrait of Helen Waddell. Constable. 35 |
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. 18 |
Cultural formation | Sarah Austin | 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 .... |
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. 78 |
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 | 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 | Helen Waddell | Her father's death plunged the PresbyterianHW
into a crisis of religious faith and a conviction that the goodness of God was a myth. Hating the Puritanism in which she had grown up, its stress... |
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. 126 |
Cultural formation | Marianne Moore | MM
was presumably white, and belonged to the American upper middle class, although she did not grow up with money. Her family were Presbyterian
s, and she was a believing Christian and active Presbyterian throughout... |
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. |
Cultural formation | Janet Schaw | JS
was a white Scotswoman of the land-owning and business class. She was a Presbyterian
by birth and training; as an adult she was in principle broad-minded and tolerant of religious difference, except for being... |
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... |
Cultural formation | Liz Lochhead | 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... |
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... |
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