Presbyterian Church

This well-characterized and engaging novel puts forward the idea that passion is necessary although dangerous if uncontrolled: an idea anticipating Veitch's later sensation novel The Dean's Daughter. The story is set at a town...

Though the title spotlights her alone, the heroine is set firmly in her social milieu: a coastal part of Scotland with a luxury estate on an offshore island called Moyle, all unknown territory to...

The title-page bears an epigraph from James Thomson , about the moral struggle of honour and aspiration against ease and luxury. It opens on an old-fashioned couple in their great Yorkshire house, Mr and Mrs...

TC 's family belonged to a dissenting branch of the Presbyterian church .

From childhood SKS was fervently religious. Her parents were Anglicans (though her mother had been brought up a Presbyterian ). She was attracted to the idea of self-sacrifice, though not to the obedience and...

AF was born into the Scottish working class and into the Protestant faith—the latter signified by yelling Dirty Papes at rival gangs of small children who yelled back Proddy Dogs, while neither understood what...

During the 1920s, LMM and her husband fought against the proposed merging of the Presbyterian and Methodist churches. In January 1925, the Leaksdale church, under the leadership of Macdonald, voted against union.

Following the religious traditions of her family, she was a Presbyterian Dissenter. She married a student of her father's who had converted to Presbyterian Dissent and subsequently became a minister to Dissenting congregations. ALB became...

AMKR 's parents were from Northern Irish farming stock, and she was a staunch Presbyterian . Her father's teaching had a serious influence on her, and she was persuaded at an early age that she...

She grew up in a strictly Scottish Presbyterian environment. According to her son John Carswell, CC 's parents were God-fearing middle-class Glaswegians and Wee Frees: the familiar name for members of the Free Church of Scotland

AL was Presbyterian but also studied Hinduism and Buddhism. She believed that she was too good a Christian not to be something of a Buddhist, and too good a Buddhist not to be something...

Though her parents had struggled through years of poverty early in their marriage, SF spent her childhood among the wealthy and titled, who made up her father's employers and associates. The family was Scottish and...

MM was presumably white, and belonged to the American upper middle class, although she did not grow up with money. Her family were Presbyterian s, and she was a believing Christian and active Presbyterian throughout...

A Scotswoman whose parents both came from industrial Lanarkshire, Lochhead describes her family as posh working class—my father wore a shirt and tie to work but he'd never have described himself as middle class...

In her late years, SF turned to Evangelical interests, and joined the Free Church , the stricter wing of the Scottish Presbyterians . She was very much interested in the rise of the missionary movement...