Ashfield, Andrew. Email to Isobel Grundy about Eleanor Tatlock.
Dissenters
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Margiad Evans | ME
wrote that she hated many of the forms of Christianity and other religions . . . . because of the sacrifice at the centre of them—the sacrificial blood. This hatred was connected with her... |
Cultural formation | Sarah Savage | SS
was a Welshwoman but with strong ties to England, belonging to the professional classes but accustomed to the stigma of Nonconformity
in a society where the Established Church was a vital plank in the... |
Cultural formation | Celia Fiennes | CF
's family were upper-class, linked to the nobility: distinguished anti-monarchists and dissenters
. She took her religion seriously: at the sight of a monument to Fulke Greville
which boasted his friendship with Sir Philip Sidney |
Cultural formation | Eleanor Tatlock | She was a middle-class Englishwoman, fervently Evangelical and in sympathy with Dissenters
, who nevertheless continued to attend or at least embrace the sacraments of the Anglican church
. Tatlock, Eleanor. Poems. S. Burton, 1811. 2: 278 |
Cultural formation | Mary Taylor | |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Gilding | |
Cultural formation | Dora Greenwell | Presumably white, DG
was born into an upper-middle class family that was then comfortably off, but was financially devastated several years after her birth. Her religious allegiances present some confusion. She was brought up as... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Heyrick | She was born a Dissenter
and until her marriage attended the Presbyterian
church in East Bond Street, Leicester. John Wesley
visited the Coltman household during her youth. Later, during her widowhood, she became a Quaker
. Beale, Catherine Hutton, editor. Catherine Hutton and Her Friends. Cornish Brothers, 1895. 61 Aucott, Shirley. Women of Courage, Vision and Talent: lives in Leicester 1780 to 1925. Shirley Aucott, 2008. 121 |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | ESR
was an English middle-class dissenter
or more properly Independent
. Marshall, Madeleine Forell. “Review of Paula Backscheider on Elizabeth Singer Rowe”. Scriblerian, No. 2, 1, pp. 159 - 61. 160 |
Cultural formation | Catherine Hutton | CH
grew up in a Dissenting
family which suffered for its beliefs. She had a number of Quaker friends, to whom she unembarrassedly used thou and thee. She wrote that she almost became a... |
Cultural formation | Maria Abdy | As a member of the English professional classes and an adherent of the established Anglican
church, she was presumably white and relatively privileged, but little is known of her life. Her mother's family were Dissenters
. |
Cultural formation | Mary Linskill | Seventeenth-century Linskills were active in the Society of Friends
and in local trade. Quinlan, David, and Arthur Frederick Humble. Mary Linskill: The Whitby Novelist. Horne and Son, 1969. 5-6 |
Cultural formation | Sarah Austin | SA
came from a presumably white, professional, English Liberal background; hers was one of the most prominent dissenting
families in Norwich, known for their talent and energy and their many contributions to .... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Major | |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | She grew up in great privilege and luxury, since her mother's wealth and father's income from Jamaican plantations allowed the family to live according to their rank as English gentry, particularly in her earlier years... |
Timeline
March 1673
Charles II
withdrew the Declaration of Indulgence promulgated one year earlier, which had offered a limited degree of freedom of worship to both Dissenters
and Roman Catholics
.
1676
A tally taken by Church of England
clergymen and known as the Compton Census set out to number adult Catholics
and Dissenters
in England and Wales.
4 April 1687
James II
's Abolition of the Test Act (a change which was also called the Declaration of Indulgence) extended freedom of worship without penalty to Catholics
and Dissenting
sects; but it remained in force only...
8 June 1688
The seven bishops (the Archbishop of Canterbury and six others) were imprisoned in the Tower of London for refusal to proclaim and distribute James II
's Declaration for Liberty of Conscience.
11 May 1792
Fox
again proposed in the House of Commons
that civil rights should be extended to Dissenters
; Burke, who had defended Dissenters in the past, furiously disagreed.
8 August 1851
The system of tithes (one-tenth of the produce of agricultural land paid yearly for the support of the Church of England
) was abolished at the instigation of William Blamire the younger
(1790-1862).