Wast, Elisabeth. Memoirs; or, Spiritual Exercises. 1724.
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Cultural formation | Elisabeth Wast | EW
was not able to rest peacefully in her commitment to the Church ofScotland
. Within four months she found herself troubled with Unbelief. Wast, Elisabeth. Memoirs; or, Spiritual Exercises. 1724. 20 |
Cultural formation | Agnes Beaumont | AB
was received into the Gamlingay congregation of John Bunyan
's Independent Church centred at Bedford. Beaumont, Agnes. “Introduction”. The Narrative of the Persecutions of Agnes Beaumont, edited by Vera J. Camden, Colleagues Press, 1992, pp. 1-33. 1, 30 |
Cultural formation | Agnes Beaumont | It was about this time, in winter 1674 (though AB
does not say whether it was January-February or December of that year), that she proposed to get to a meeting at Gamlingay by riding pillion... |
Education | Elaine Feinstein | She later felt she was lucky to be a postwar student; before then, she would have been as out of place at Newnham as Amy Levy
. Christianity was everywhere Feinstein, Elaine. It Goes with the Territory. Alma, 2013. 37 |
Education | Lucy Boston | Lucy spent most of her childhood with her siblings, cared for by a nurse, under-nurse and governess in the third-floor nursery. Boston, Lucy et al. Memories. Colt Books with Diana Boston Hemingford Gray, 1992. 22-3, 40 |
Education | Anne Brontë | Their later reading drew on a selection of standard texts including Oliver Goldsmith
's History of England, Hannah More
's Moral Sketches, John Bunyan
's Pilgrim's Progress, Isaac Watts
's Doctrine of... |
Education | Charlotte Brontë | Their education continued at home from a selection of standard texts including Oliver Goldsmith
's History of England, Hannah More
's Moral Sketches, John Bunyan
's Pilgrim's Progress, Isaac Watts
's Doctrine... |
Education | Henry Handel Richardson | The child Ethel Richardson was a great reader. She identified with male fictional characters, and cherished three books which her father gave her almost on his death-bed: The Pilgrim's Progress by Bunyan
, Robinson Crusoe... |
Education | Emily Brontë | Thereafter, Patrick Brontë
educated his remaining children at home, using standard educational texts including Thomas Salmon
's A New Geographical and Historical Grammar, a condensed version of Oliver Goldsmith
's History of England,... |
Education | Jean Rhys | At a very young age, JR
imagined that God was a book. She was so slow to read that her parents were concerned, but then suddenly found herself able to read even the longer words... |
Education | Emmeline Pankhurst | |
Education | Catherine Carswell | |
Education | Sarah Josepha Hale | |
Education | Elizabeth Ham | At WeymouthEH
(while her family moved to the village of Upwey) attended Ma'am Tucker's school, first boarding with a neighbour and later at the school. The governess was a Presbyterian, for which... |
Education | Clemence Dane | CD
later wrote: Of course education in the modern sense didn't exist in the 'nineties, but reading was early acquired. Dane, Clemence. London Has a Garden. Michael Joseph, 1964. 57-8 |