AS
's mother, Ann Smith
, was born in the town of Limavady, Northern Ireland. Raised a Catholic, Ann was the penultimate of seven children, at least two of whom lived in Inverness during...
Family and Intimate relationships
Hesba Stretton
HS
's mother, born Ann Bakewell
, died when Sarah was around eight years old.
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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...
