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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 | 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 |
Cultural formation | Ann Bridge | 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... |
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 | Flora Annie Steel | 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. Powell, Violet. Flora Annie Steel: Novelist of India. Heinemann, 1981. 4, 8 |
Cultural formation | Frances Browne | 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... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Helme | 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. |
Cultural formation | Maria De Fleury | 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... |
Cultural formation | Elisabeth Wast | EW
was not able to rest peacefully in her commitment to the Church ofScotland
. Within four months she found herself troubled with Unbelief. Wast, Elisabeth. Memoirs; or, Spiritual Exercises. 1724. 20 |
Cultural formation | Muriel Spark | Though she attended a Presbyterian
school, MS
was rarely taken to church. She was terribly interested Spark, Muriel. “My Conversion”. Critical Essays on Muriel Spark, edited by Joseph Hynes, G. K. Hall and Maxwell Macmillan, 1992, pp. 24-28. 24 |
Cultural formation | John Buchan | A Presbyterian
Scot of the professional class by birth, with no drop of non-Scottish blood in his veins, JB
became to some extent anglicized by spending most of his adult life in England. |
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