Methodist Church

Born into the English Dissenting middle class, she held a strong religious faith which was the guiding principle of her life.

Her father had already treated her harshly, though he was one of the first converts of the early Methodist preacher George Whitefield .

Although strongly influenced by her Methodist grandfather, FT grew up in the Anglican Church. She remained an Anglican even though she was attracted to the Catholic Church in later life.

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 .

JW published The Moral Ideal: A Historic Study, a comparative account of world religions. (She had already, eighteen years before, published a study of Methodism .)

SW bore the child who became the most famous of all her offspring: John Wesley , father of Methodism .

SW died at her son John 's Methodist headquarters of The Foundery in London.

The MethodistArminian Magazine carried the poem which was until recently regarded as PW 's last, An Elegy on Leaving —. It seem, though, that this was not by Wheatley but by Mary Whateley Darwall .

Volume one begins with a discussion of religion in Wales, followed by a short biography of Davis's father, the Methodist preacher Dafydd Cadwaladyr . The book then moves into a first-person account of Davis

EW lived with her grandmother and two unmarried aunts, all with deep Wesleyan faith, for twenty-one years until Annie Malkin's death in 1919. EW later regarded her Methodist upbringing as restricted and blinkered, yet at...

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,...

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...

Until the age of thirty-one EW continued to live with her grandmother Annie Malkin and two elderly aunts. The household was severe for a young woman: on Sundays, Annie Malkin's strict Methodist sensibilities led her...

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...

Later critics concede that the work has value despite the apparent vapidity of the Aunt Topaz character. William H. New has argued that her lack of depth helps illustrate her anachronistic function, which reveals the...