Stouck, David. Ethel Wilson: A Critical Biography. University of Toronto Press, 2003.
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Birth | Ethel Wilson | Ethel Bryant (later EW
) was born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, of Wesleyan Methodist
missionary parents. She was their only surviving child. Stouck, David. Ethel Wilson: A Critical Biography. University of Toronto Press, 2003. 3, 8 |
Characters | Sarah Green | After this tirade the novel is more fun than one might anticipate. The title-page quotes Sir John Vanbrugh
. The story opens with SG
's gentleman hero, Percival Ellingford, a recent convert to Methodism
... |
Cultural formation | May Kendall | Not much is known about her life. Leighton, Angela, and Margaret Reynolds, editors. Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology. Blackwell, 1995. 627 |
Cultural formation | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | |
Cultural formation | Carol Shields | CS
's family was church-going, Methodist
. For a while she attended a Quaker
meeting, but by the 1980s she described herself as notreligious. Wachtel, Eleanor, editor. “Carol Shields”. More Writers and Company: New Conversations with CBC Radio’s Eleanor Wachtel, Vintage Canada, 1997, pp. 36-56. 38,50 |
Cultural formation | Hannah Kilham | |
Cultural formation | Ivy Compton-Burnett | Both parents came from Dissenting
backgrounds; Ivy's maternal grandfather was a fervent Methodist
. She herself, after inventing fictitious deities as a child and being baptised and confirmed in the Anglican
church, chose from an... |
Cultural formation | Joanna Southcott | She created her own, millenarian religious sect after the Methodists
and the Church of England
(both of whose services she attended) had rebuffed her unconventional advances. She is, however, often associated with the Methodists. Hopkins, James K. A Woman To Deliver her People: Joanna Southcott and English Millenarianism in an Era of Revolution. University of Texas Press, 1982. 47, 58, 35 |
Cultural formation | Hannah Kilham | She was brought up as an Anglican
, but converted first to Wesleyan Methodism
(in which her mother had shown some interest) and later to Quakerism
. |
Cultural formation | Joanna Southcott | At Christmas either this year or the previous one JS
joined the Methodists
, but they rebuffed her when she began talking about the Spirit. The Church of England
also responded with hostility to her... |
Cultural formation | Hannah Kilham | As a Methodist
Hannah Spurr (later HK
) was deeply distressed in August 1797 by the split between the bulk of the sect and the New Connection
founded by her future husband. After long wavering... |
Cultural formation | Mary Prince | She was already ageing when she had a conversion experience and joined a Christian sect, the Methodists or Moravians
, when she happened to attend one of their services and heard the first prayers I... |
Cultural formation | Rudyard Kipling | As an English boy and then man in India, Rudyard must have been constantly aware of his status as one of the white race and administrative ruling class. His earliest memories of India were impressions... |
Cultural formation | Joanna Baillie | JB
was a Scottish writer: though she lived most of her adult life in London, her letters show her vividly aware of her Scots identity, not least in her deliberate use of the Scotticisms which... |
Cultural formation | Mary Prince | Some years after this, one Christmas, attendance at a Methodist
meeting at Date Hill in Antigua made a great impression on MP
's mind, and led my spirit to the Moravian church. Prince, Mary, and Ziggi Alexander. The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave. Editor Ferguson, Moira, Pandora, 1987. 73 |
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