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AL was Presbyterian but also studied Hinduism and Buddhism. 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

In her late years, SF turned to Evangelical interests, and joined the Free Church , the stricter wing of the Scottish Presbyterians . She was very much interested in the rise of the missionary movement...

HM had almost no contact with the Methodists, but despite her strong commitment to the Church of England she was broadly tolerant of classical Nonconformity . During the Blagdon controversy she admitted in a letter...

The Keddies raised their children in the Calvinistic, Presbyterian Church of Scotland. After 1843, when the Free Kirk , or Free Church of Scotland, seceded (on the issue of the right of congregations to choose...

AMM was a Presbyterian like her parents (both Scottish born). Her moral outlook was inflected by liberal Christianity, and she actively supported Presbyterian missions in India. She was strongly influenced by the Social Gospel movement...

CF , with six other people, registered a house at Highwood Hill near Barnet in Middlesex for legally holding Presbyterian meetings.

In opposition to the Calvinist teaching about predestination which she had grown up with, WM came to believe in what she called True Love. For Calvinist Scots, she writes, Jesus died to save onlythe...

KR was brought up in her father's Wesleyan Methodist faith, and also introduced to her maternal family's Presbyterianism by her Scottish relatives. She wrote of being drawn more strongly to the Greek myths in her...

SM came from the Scottish middle class, though her father sometimes worked at manual jobs while she was growing up. She says she was brought up with quite liberal values but with a Presbyterian moral...

Her father had been impressed as a young man by the Morrisonian revival, a revolt against rigorous Calvinism. He was violently opposed to belief in predestination, and helped build a little Evangelical Union Church which...