Stouck, David. Ethel Wilson: A Critical Biography. University of Toronto Press.
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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. 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 | Elizabeth Jenkins | She came from the middle class, from a family with a strong Methodist
tradition. In later life she became a believer in spiritualism. “Elizabeth Jenkins”. The Telegraph. Beauman, Nicola. “Elizabeth Jenkins Obituary”. The Guardian. Jenkins, Sir Michael, and Elizabeth Jenkins. “Introduction”. The View from Downshire Hill: A Memoir, Michael Russell, pp. 9-12. 12 |
Cultural formation | L. M. Montgomery | 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. Rubio, Mary, and Elizabeth Waterston. Writing a Life: L.M. Montgomery. ECW Press. 78 |
Cultural formation | Josephine Butler | |
Cultural formation | Mary Bosanquet Fletcher | The child of wealthy English Anglican
family of Huguenot extraction, Mary Bosanquet received at about the age of four what she felt to be a proof that God answers prayer. At five she developed an... |
Cultural formation | Ethel Wilson | While EW
's younger cousins had thought her family home was an impossible environment for a young woman, it is unclear that she was unhappy and it is unlikely that she rebelled. Thus, although EW's... |
Cultural formation | Susanna Moodie | In her late twenties, Susanna met Thomas Pringle
, Methodist
secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society
in England, who influenced her involvement with the abolitionist movement and her decision to join a Nonconformist congregation near Reydon... |
Cultural formation | Jane Cave | JC
, daughter of Welsh and English parents, Schürer, Norbert. “Jane Cave Winscom: Provincial Poetry and the Metropolitan Connection”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 36 , No. 3, pp. 415-31. 417 |
Cultural formation | Flora Thompson | |
Cultural formation | Mary Bosanquet Fletcher | At eighteen, while her family moved on from the London season to the fashionable seaside resort of Scarborough, she got permission to stay on in London at the house of an uncle, where she overtaxed... |
Cultural formation | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | Sydney Owenson was born to an English Methodist
mother with leanings towards the sect called the Countess of Huntingdon's Connection
, and an Irish, originally Catholic
, father. She aligned herself strongly with the Irish... |
Cultural formation | Mary Tighe | MT
's gentry-class family had links with the English nobility; nevertheless, her Irish identity was important to her. Her parents were a prominent Methodist
and a clergyman in the Church of Ireland
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Cultural formation | Mehetabel Wright | |
Cultural formation | Olivia Clarke |
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