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Presbyterian Church
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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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. Chambers, William. Story of St. Giles’ Cathedral Church. W & R Chambers, 1879. 39 |
Cultural formation | Olivia Manning | OM
's family was lower-middle-class. (The Braybrookes' biography remarks that having come from this narrowest, most prejudiced class in England . . . . she had successfully declassed herself.) Braybrooke, Neville, and Isobel English. Olivia Manning: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 2004. 187 |
Cultural formation | Grisell Murray | GM
was born into the Scottish Presbyterian
gentry; her parents were strongly committed to their religion and the generation before them had suffered as Covenanters
for their commitment. In maturity she inhabited the slightly awkward... |
Cultural formation | Sylvia Beach | She was the daughter of a white American Presbyterian
minister who came from nine generations of clergy. From her father's mother she learned piety and prudence. Her own mother
instilled in her a love for... |
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 | Elizabeth Melvill | At the Presbyterian
religious gathering later called the communion of [or at] Shotts,EM
retired to pray privately in the bed (a curtained alcove), but then consented to pray aloud, while thousands gathered... |
Cultural formation | Elisabeth Wast | EW
, in Edinburgh on a fast day, first took the sacrament in the Church of Scotland
. Wast, Elisabeth. Memoirs; or, Spiritual Exercises. 1724. 6 |
Cultural formation | Elma Napier | EN
was exposed to a range of Christian faiths. Though her mother was Episcopalian
, the family attended a Presbyterian
kirk (the Church of Scotland) for a time during Elma's early childhood. One of her... |
Cultural formation | Marie Stopes | MS
seems also to have reacted against her mother's inculcation of the hellfire beliefs of the particularly harsh brand of Presbyterianism
associated with the Wee Free or Free Church of Scotland
. Commire, Anne, and Deborah Klezmer, editors. Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Yorkin Publications, 1999–2002, 17 vols. Maude, Aylmer. The Authorized Life of Marie C. Stopes. Williams and Norgate, 1924. 185 |
Cultural formation | Isabella Bird | IB
apparently told Sarah Tytler
, however, that they were also motivated by interest in, and a desire to join, the Free Kirk
which had recently separated from the Church of Scotland
. Tytler, Sarah. Three Generations. J. Murray, 1911. 267-8 |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Hamilton | She grew up Anglican
like her parents, and shared this faith with the uncle who brought her up. Her aunt, however, was a Presbyterian
, so that Elizabeth had an example of toleration before 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... |
Cultural formation | Elisabeth Wast | 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... |
Cultural formation | Margaret Oliphant | 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. |
Cultural formation | Charlotte Stopes | Though little is known about her early religious experiences, she brought up her daughters as members of the Free Church of Scotland
. Commire, Anne, and Deborah Klezmer, editors. Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Yorkin Publications, 1999–2002, 17 vols. 850 |
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