AL
's father, the Rev. James Brereton
, vicar of Acton, grandson of a baron, married again and had four more daughters and another son. He had literary and scientific interests; but Joseph Priestley
(an...
Cultural formation
Catharine Macaulay
CM
was an Anglican
with strong ties to Dissenting reformers. Her outspoken comments on religious matters made many people suppose that she was a sceptic, but this seems not to have been the case. Later...
Cultural formation
Catherine Hutton
CH
grew up in a Dissenting
family which suffered for its beliefs. She had a number of Quaker friends, to whom she unembarrassedly used thou and thee. She wrote that she almost became a...
