Presbyterian Church

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...

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...

SM came from the Scottish middle class, though her father sometimes worked at manual jobs while she was growing up. She says she was brought up with quite liberal values but with a Presbyterian moral...

Her father had been impressed as a young man by the Morrisonian revival, a revolt against rigorous Calvinism. He was violently opposed to belief in predestination, and helped build a little Evangelical Union Church which...

She did this to the Presbyterian congregation of Samuel Annesley , but they had not patience to hear her, and dragged her and her sister away, although she had patiently waited until the end of...

WP 's EvangelicalAnglican parents never frightened their children with talk of hell-fire, though from their nurse and the books read aloud by their governess she and her siblings imbibed a fear of damnation and...

Brought up a Presbyterian , SM was received into the Anglo-Catholic church in 1972 (the year of her marriage and of her husband's appointment as a parish priest) and later became a Roman Catholic .

She came from the professional class. Her family tradition was Scottish and Covenanting on her mother's side, Welsh with some Huguenot blood on her father's. She was brought up a Rational Dissenter and attended a...

IM was born Irish but grew up in England from babyhood, with holidays in Ireland. Her mother's family, with a history as Anglo-Irish adherents of the Church of Ireland , had come down in the...

She was brought up in the Church of Scotland .

Her parents were both Scots of the professional classes, with links on each side to the nobility, which AH emphasizes at a date when she had married into the latter class.AH was a...

JHC 's large, wealthy middle-class, Scottish family had Liberal leanings, and was presumably Presbyterian , having affiliations with the parishes of St Giles's and St Cuthbert's in Edinburgh.JHC remained committed to the...

OM 's family was lower-middle-class. (The Braybrookes' biography remarks that having come from this narrowest, most prejudiced class in England . . . . she had successfully declassed herself.) Her father was English...

GM was born into the Scottish Presbyterian gentry; her parents were strongly committed to their religion and the generation before them had suffered as Covenanters for their commitment. In maturity she inhabited the slightly awkward...