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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... |
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 |
Education | Catherine Carswell | |
Education | Emmeline Pankhurst | |
Education | Sarah Josepha Hale | |
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 |
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 | Louisa May Alcott | She was also a great self-educator and took to reading everything from Bunyan
's Pilgrim's Progress to Hawthorne
's The Scarlet Letter (he was a family friend). She particularly admired Mary Wollstonecraft
and also warmed... |
Education | Rebecca Harding Davis | Influenced by her mother's linguistic virtuosity and her father's storytelling and love of classic literature, Rebecca grew up well acquainted with early American history (whose evidence lay close at hand) and with the stories... |
Education | Flora Thompson | From the beginning of her time at school, Flora was constantly borrowing books to read on her own, branching out from the Bible and Bunyan
's Pilgrim's Progress to whatever she could lay her hands on. Lindsay, Gillian. Flora Thompson: The Story of the Lark Rise Writer. Hale, 1996. 19 |
Education | George Eliot | Her devotion to John Bunyan
's Pilgrim's Progress remained unchanged during this period. She also read heavyweight works of theology, Hannah More
's letters, and a life of William Wilberforce
. By late 1838, however... |
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... |