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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 Elizabeth Bathurst
She did this to the Presbyterian congregation of Samuel Annesley , but they had not patience to hear her, and dragged her and her sister away, although she had patiently waited until the end of...
Cultural formation Iris Murdoch
IM was born Irish but grew up in England from babyhood, with holidays in Ireland. Her mother's family, with a history as Anglo-Irish adherents of the Church of Ireland , had come down in the...
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.
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According to her daughter Marie , CS raised them in the...
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
Her father was English...
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 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.
Maude, Aylmer. The Authorized Life of Marie C. Stopes. Williams and Norgate.
185
As an...
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 Helen Maria Williams
She came from the professional class. Her family tradition was Scottish and Covenanting on her mother's side, Welsh with some Huguenot blood on her father's. She was brought up a Rational Dissenter and attended a...
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 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 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 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.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Chambers, William. Story of St. Giles’ Cathedral Church. W & R Chambers.
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JHC remained committed to the...
Cultural formation Lesley Storm
She was brought up in the Church of Scotland .
Ravenhall, Chris. “Lesley Storm’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Three Goose Quills and a Knife</span>: A Burns Play Rediscovered”. Studies in Scottish Literature, Vol.
32
, pp. 46-54.
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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...

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