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ST 's career as a writer introduced her to many leading literary figures (especially those of Scots origin) whom she entertainingly describes in Three Generations. She became an especially good friend of Dinah Mulock Craik

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...

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...

HA was a diarist and spiritual autobiographer (of the Presbyterian sect) of the later seventeenth century.

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...

Travelling In, because it described in positive terms the author's experience of taking LSD, was banned from bookshops run by the Church of Scotland .

The title exhorts him to begin the new yeare, with new fruits of love, first to God, and then to his brethren. The Introduction or Epistle, To the Godly Reader explains why she has taken...

This novel combines comic realism of tone with a sensational plot-line. The dissenting clergyman protagonist stands at the centre of events which include kidnapping, attempted murder, and an attack of brain fever. MO used...

The later dangers which Agnes faces are chiefly theological: she moves towards Dissent and specifically Presbyterianism , but returns to the Church of England , saved in part by a copy of The Christian Year...

She writes evocatively here of her childhood in India, and closes on instances of the uncanny in Wales and some spiritual experiences of her own which for her contradict absolutely the real existence of...

The fuller title is An Expostulatory Appeal to the Professors of Christianity, Joyned in Community with Samuel Ansley. EB says she made a proclamation to these people on the twentieth day of the eighth...

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...

KC published with her initials a broadside entitled Good Counsell, to the Petitioners for Presbyterian Government.

She compares the parallel stories of the English Reformation under King Henry VIII , which established the Church of England (Anglican or Episcopalian), and the Scottish Reformation under John Knox in 1559, which established the...

Against a background of Charles I 's continuing war against Scotland (despite the signing of the Solemn League and Covenant in September 1643) in the attempt to impose Episcopacy in place of Presbyterianism, KC argues...