Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Methodist Church
Connections
Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Literary responses | Judith Cowper Madan | Roger Lonsdale
in 1990 followed Falconer Madan
in supposing that her child-bearing and the influence of John Wesley
and the Methodists
amounted to sufficient explanation for her ceasing to write. Valerie Rumbold
suggested in 1996... |
Friends, Associates | Fanny Kemble | Dr William Ellery Channing
, an American Unitarian
and friend of Lucy Aikin
, met and befriended FK
. His views came to influence hers. Marshall, Dorothy. Fanny Kemble. Weidenfeld and Nicholson. 93 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ann Martin Taylor | Her father had already treated her harshly, though he was one of the first converts of the early Methodist
preacher George Whitefield
. Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Ann Taylor Gilbert’s Album. Editor Stewart, Christina Duff, Garland. 521 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Jenkins | His father, Ebenezer Jenkins
, was a Methodist
missionary in India during the 1840s. James Heald Jenkins was his only son. Jenkins, Elizabeth. The View from Downshire Hill. Michael Johnson. 13 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Bosanquet Fletcher | He was of Swiss origin, ten years her senior (born in 1729 at Nyon near Geneva), and a fellow-evangelical. In 1773 John Wesley
had approached him about taking on leadership of the Methodist movement... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Susanna Wesley | SW
bore the child who became the most famous of all her offspring: John Wesley
, father of Methodism
. Wesley, Susanna. “Introduction”. Susanna Wesley: The Complete Writings, edited by Charles Wallace, Oxford University Press. xiii |
Family and Intimate relationships | Cassandra Cooke | Cassandra's cousin Jane Austen
criticised the household management of Samuel Cooke (who was her godfather), judging him a disagreable, fidgetty master to his servants. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ethel Wilson | Ethel Bryant
married Dr Wallace Algernon Wilson
, at a quiet ceremony at Wesley Methodist Church
in Vancouver. McAlpine, Mary. The Other Side of Silence: A Life of Ethel Wilson. Harbour. 67-8 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Hart Gilbert | She had met him while she was a schoolteacher. He was a widower (only five years her senior) of an English family long settled in the Caribbean, who worked both as a baker and as... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ethel Wilson | EW
's mother was Eliza Davis Malkin
, called Lila. She was the oldest of nine children born to a serious, deeply pious Wesleyan Methodist
family at Burslem in Staffordshire, England. Upon marriage... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Eliza Fenwick | EF
's father, Peter Jaco
, born in 1721, was a Cornishman, who early in life worked for his father in the pilchard fishery; ships owned by the family sailed in the Mediterranean. EF
said... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ethel Wilson | In 1912 EW
was briefly engaged to a Methodist
lawyer, John Pethybridge Nicolls
, whose family was close with her grandmother. She had known him since she was a young teenager; he was almost twenty... |
Education | Marie Belloc Lowndes | |
Education | Ethel Wilson | As a teenager EW
was sent back to England for further education at Trinity Hall School
in Southport, Lancashire, a Wesleyan Methodist
boarding school for girls. She later recalled this as a highly regimented,... |
death | Susanna Wesley |
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