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Cultural formation | John Stuart Mill | JSM
's father was Scottish and brought up as a Presbyterian
. He later rejected his religious training for Utilitarianism. Mill, John Stuart, and John Jacob Coss. Autobiography. Columbia University Press. 2, 27 |
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... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Melvill | John Welsh
was imprisoned in Blackness Castle (across the River Forth from Rosyth) in connection with the abortive Church of Scotland
General Assembly at Aberdeen. EM
wrote for him in prison A Sonnet Sent... |
Author summary | Elizabeth Melvill | EM
was a staunch Scottish Presbyterian
whose surviving poems and letters almost all relate to the efforts of James the Sixth and First
to impose episcopacy and other changes on the Kirk. Their religious content... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Melvill | EM
was an upper-class Scotswoman who was born into the Church of Scotland
and remained a fervent and radical member of it. She is presumed to have undergone a conversion experience within this church, and... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Melvill | While the Scottish parliament, meeting at Edinburgh in summer 1621, sought to wrench control of the Scottish Church
from its radical wing, anti-episcopal Presbyterian ministers gathered at nearby Sheens to await the result. There EM |
Publishing | Elizabeth Melvill | These two editions (both in English) witness the continuing importance of the text to Presbyterians
. The same century saw a total of seven reprints, with two in the early eighteenth century. The poem was... |
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. 187 |
Cultural formation | Sara Maitland | Brought up a Presbyterian
, SM
was received into the Anglo-Catholic church in 1972 (the year of her marriage and of her husband's appointment as a parish priest) and later became a Roman Catholic
. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Cultural formation | Shena Mackay | 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... |
Cultural formation | Agnes Maule Machar | 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... |
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 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 | 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 |
politics | Lucy Hutchinson | As a member of the Council of State (instituted after the king
's death as chief executive body) John Hutchinson
found himself with power over his old opposites and enemies of . . . the... |
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