Plymouth Brethren

It was her father's Low Church religious background that prevailed in the Sanders household when AB was young: the influence of her paternal grandmother (a Plymouth sister ) was discernible. There were no card games...

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...

Both her parents were exceedingly religious, her father from a lineage of Evangelical or hot-gospellingAnglican s while her mother's family had been Plymouth Brethren . Together, they administered heavy doses of religion...

They belonged to the strict sect of Plymouth Brethren (a minority most numerous in the West Country), who lay great emphasis on the avoidance of sin and the need to be saved by faith. PB

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...

While there she made five friends who formed an intense, exclusive circle. MB has been described as falling violently in love with one of them, Amy. She was taught there by a schoolmistress...

Her daughter, Anna Maria , married a naval officer, Charles Montagu Walker , and had eight children. Most of her inheritance vanished in mortgages and contested ownership. One of MR 's grandsons took an interest...

During his late teens and earlier twenties, Synge became infatuated with Cherrie Matheson , his neighbour, a daughter of strictly religious members of the Plymouth Brethren . She was an accomplished painter who had shown...

As late as the 1920s HS 's books for children were read with fascinated attention by the future poet Patricia Beer , who grew up at Exmouth in Devon in an environment rigidly controlled by...