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.
Melnyk, Julie. “Evangelical Theology and Feminist Polemic: Emma Jane Worboise’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Overdale</span>”;. Women’s Theology in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Transfiguring the Faith of Their Fathers, edited by Julie Melnyk, Garland, pp. 107-22.
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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.
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Her father came from a long line of Cornish farmers who were devoted Methodist
s. As a young...
Moore, Sarah Elizabeth. Emails to Orlando about Edith Mary Moore.
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.
35
.
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Peterman, Michael. Susanna Moodie: A Life. ECW Press.
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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...
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
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.
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in herself, she loved the music and ritual of the Broad Church Anglican
services to which her...
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...
“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, 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. J. M. Dent.