Methodist Church

From a family which was financially precarious though middle-class by birth, MW seems to have questioned the religious fervour typical of its other members (at first Anglican , in due course Methodist ), while also...

Her family was mixed, her mother being an English Methodist and her father an Irish Catholic , who had moved away from his Celtic roots by changing his name from MacOwen to Owenson and his...

The new vicar (who did not live in the parish) respected her so highly that he allowed her to appoint a curate (the vicar's substitute) of her own choice, Mr Horne. She was personally sorry...

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 ...

Ethel Bryant (later EW ) was born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, of Wesleyan Methodist missionary parents. She was their only surviving child.