Congregational Church

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Cultural formation Mary Maria Colling
Baptised a Congregationalist , that is in contemporary terms a Dissenter , MMC later became a practising Anglican . She was deeply religious.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Bray, Anna Eliza, and Mary Maria Colling. “Letters to Robert Southey”. Fables and Other Pieces in Verse by M.M. Colling, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1831, pp. 1-85.
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An Independent church in England is normally Congregational, though the Wesleyan Independent sect also existed.
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
Cultural formation Sarah Stickney Ellis
Sarah Stickney was formally admitted as a member of the Congregational Church.
Ellis, Sarah Stickney. The Home Life and Letters of Mrs. Ellis. J. Nisbet, 1893.
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Cultural formation Sarah Stickney Ellis
Her father was a tenant farmer in the East Riding, and SSE later celebrated agricultural labour in one of her poems.
Schlueter, Paul, and June Schlueter, editors. An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers. Garland, 1988.
She was brought up as a Quaker , but later rejected the Society...
Cultural formation Emma Jane Worboise
The Literary World was apparently mistaken in calling EJWthe novelist of Evangelical Dissent and in speculating as to whether or not she ever left the Anglican Church.
qtd. in
Melnyk, Julie. “Evangelical Theology and Feminist Polemic: Emma Jane Worboises OverdaleWomens Theology in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Transfiguring the Faith of Their Fathers, edited by Julie Melnyk, Garland, 1998, pp. 107-22.
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The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography...
Cultural formation Hesba Stretton
As an adult HS abandoned her mother 's strict Methodism and became an incurable sermon-taster. She favoured several denominations at the extreme of Protestantism. During the twelve-year period recorded in her Log Books only three...
Cultural formation Harriet Beecher Stowe
In 1816, HBS went to stay for a time with her grandmother in a setting widely different from her birth home. Her father's home is described as being Congregational and democratic in contrast to the...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Siddal
ES was not as thoroughly working-class as has been claimed, but she came from a relatively humble urban English background. There is little evidence of her personal attitudes, but there is evidence of membership in...
Cultural formation Catharine Maria Sedgwick
Born into a wealthy upper-class American family, she was for several years a member of Dr Mason's Congregationalist Church . She abandoned this denomination, however, in 1821 when she followed her dying father's example, and...
Cultural formation Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
EPL grew up in a large, upper-middle-class, Liberal family that taught her to disregard class distinction.
Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. My Part in a Changing World. Hyperion, 1976.
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Her father came from a long line of Cornish farmers who were devoted Methodist s. As a young...
Cultural formation Katharine Bruce Glasier
Katharine Conway, later KBG , was born to an English, white, minister's family, who considering their middle-class status were relatively poor. She was the product of her parents' views on equality of educational opportunities for...
Cultural formation Pamela Hansford Johnson
Religion, too, became important to PHJ in her youth. Though she notes a streak of emotional Calvinism
Johnson, Pamela Hansford. Important to Me. Macmillan; Scribner, 1974.
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in herself, she loved the music and ritual of the Broad Church Anglican services to which her...
Cultural formation Jessie White Mario
JWM was born to probably white parents. Her mother was of American descent and her father belonged to an old Portsmouth family. He ran a very strict middle-class Congregationalist household, against which Jessie (an agnostic...
Cultural formation Susanna Moodie
Susanna Strickland, later SM , joined a Congregationalist church, marking a significant step in her spiritual development.
Thurston, John. “‘The Casket of Truth’: The Social Significance of Susanna Moodie’s Spiritual Dilemmas”. Canadian Poetry, Vol.
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, 1 Sept.–28 Feb. 1994.
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Peterman, Michael. Susanna Moodie: A Life. ECW Press, 1999.
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Cultural formation Antoinette Brown Blackwell
Despite Joseph Brown's former studies in theology and hopes of becoming a minister, the Brown family did not actively practise religion until Antoinette was about seven. They then began attending Henrietta's liberal Congregational Church after...
Cultural formation Susanna Moodie
Religion was a source of conflict in SM 's personal life and in her husband's professional life. An early relationship with a Nonconformist distanced SM from the high Anglican tradition embraced by her parents and...

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