Beaumont, Agnes. “Introduction”. The Narrative of the Persecutions of Agnes Beaumont, edited by Vera J. Camden, Colleagues Press, 1992, pp. 1-33.
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Characters | Laura Ormiston Chant | Sellcuts' Manager cannot be isolated from Chant's then-still-notorious attack on the Empire Theatre
, as well as her belief in temperance. From Mora's narrative to the idealized Palace of Amusements that reflects Chant's earlier writings... |
Cultural formation | Agnes Beaumont | She attended the Baptist
Meeting at Tilehouse Street in Hitchin, where the minister was John Wilson
, and to which she made a donation of two pounds fifteen shillings for building in 1692. Beaumont, Agnes. “Introduction”. The Narrative of the Persecutions of Agnes Beaumont, edited by Vera J. Camden, Colleagues Press, 1992, pp. 1-33. 30 |
Cultural formation | Rebecca Travers | She was originally a Baptist
and was converted to Quakerism
by James Nayler
. She remained loyal to Nayler, even after he was disgraced and condemned by George Fox
. RT
organised the first women's... |
Cultural formation | Enid Blyton | She was brought up a Baptist
(baptised into that church at the age of thirteen). She later moved away from the god of her childhood (a god of vengeance, she said). Very much wishing to... |
Cultural formation | Anna Trapnel | She experienced a spiritual awakening after hearing a sermon by Hugh Peter
when she was about nineteen, then in 1650 joined the Baptist
congregation of John Simpson
. Later she moved to the sect of... |
Cultural formation | Jean Binta Breeze | JBB
is a Jamaican of black African descent and of the professional class. (She also has white forebears, a fact which does not please her.) Breeze, Jean Binta. The Fifth Figure. Bloodaxe Books, 2006. Breeze 30 |
Cultural formation | Hesba Stretton | |
Cultural formation | Pandita Ramabai | While living in Silchar, she studied Christianity under the Baptist
missionary Isaac Allen
, much to her husband's disapproval. As a widow she carried these studies further. Burton, Antoinette. At the Heart of the Empire. University of California Press, 1998. 80 |
Cultural formation | Isabella Neil Harwood | |
Cultural formation | Dinah Mulock Craik | |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Hooton | Elizabeth was born to a Baptist
family, and was very active within the movement. She was already an established preacher well before she became perhaps the first person to join George Fox
in the embryonic... |
Cultural formation | Lucy Hutchinson | LH
and her husband
became Baptists
: that is, they became convinced that infant baptism is wrong, and that people should be old enough to take the decision for themselves before they were baptised. Hutchinson, Lucy. Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson. Editor Sutherland, James, Oxford University Press, 1973. 169 |
Cultural formation | Sarah Davy | SD
, apparently by birth an Englishwoman of the middling ranks and an Anglican
, converted, as one of the most significant actions of her life, to join an Independent
or Baptist
congregation. Some modern... |
Cultural formation | Lucy Hutchinson | She grew up in the Puritan
part of the Anglican
faith. She came to share some of the beliefs of the Baptist
s, and later still of the Presbyterian
s or Independents
. She then... |
Cultural formation | Maria De Fleury | MDF
was a fervent Protestant, who had dealings with the sect of Baptists
, as well as attending an Independent
or Presbyterian
congregation headed by John Towers
(who wrote one of the prefaces to her... |
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