Baptist Church

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation Mary Anne Barker
Though she was and remained, she said, a staunch Churchwoman myself, and yield to no one in pure love and reverence for my own form of worship,
Barker, Mary Anne. A Year’s Housekeeping in South Africa. Macmillan, 1877.
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she was nonetheless warm in her tribute...
Cultural formation Susanna Watts
Although she was baptised in the Church ofEngland , SW was remarkable for her principled empathy and personal friendships with Dissenters .
Aucott, Shirley. Susanna Watts (1768 to 1842): author of Leicester’s first guide, abolitionist and bluestocking. Shirley Aucott, 2004.
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The Feminist Companion calls her an evangelical; Jack Simmons , in his...
Cultural formation Agnes Beaumont
AB chose her own faith, joining first the Independents and then the Baptists . Her family belonged to the Church of England (though her elder brother seems to have been a dissenter like herself).
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.
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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.
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Her involvement with the Pentecostal Holiness and Baptist
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 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.
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Family and Intimate relationships Constance Naden
Her maternal grandfather, J. C. Woodhill , was a retired jeweller, a Baptist elder, and a man of literary interests who possessed an extensive and eclectic library: a great book-lover in his retirement
Hughes, William Richard et al. Constance Naden: A Memoir. Bickers and Son, 1890.
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Author summary Anne Wentworth
AW , member of a Baptist congregation, became a prophet in the 1670s. She addressed warnings of the wrath of God to the king and the Lord Mayor of London, and published two prophecies of...
Textual Production Sarah Davy
Following the early death of SD this year, her religious meditation or conversion narrative (Baptist or Independent ) was posthumously published as Heaven Realiz'd.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Caroline Frances Cornwallis
The letters in Christian Sects (which is headed by three quotations, one of them from St John's Gospel) are said to have been exchanged between one of the editors of the Small Books, and...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Edna Lyall
The Burges children's father, though he is against Pusey ism, is broad-minded
Lyall, Edna. The Burges Letters: A Record of Child Life in the Sixties. Longmans, Green, and Co., 1902.
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about Puseyites as he is in other respects: visitors to their house include not only Anglicans but Moravians , a Baptist ...

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