Methodist Church

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Cultural formation Eliza Fenwick
Brought up in all the fervour of early Methodism (to which each of her parents had devoted their life before she was born), EF seems to have retained no trace of it after she was...
Cultural formation Judith Cowper Madan
From about this time she associated herself with John Wesley 's fairly new religious group called the Methodists (then part of the Church of England). Another influence on her religious thinking was Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon
Cultural formation Mary Anne Barker
Though she was and remained, she said, a staunch Churchwoman myself, and yield to no one in pure love and reverence for my own form of worship,
Barker, Mary Anne. A Year’s Housekeeping in South Africa. Macmillan.
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she was nonetheless warm in her tribute...
Cultural formation Catharine Amy Dawson Scott
Hers was a prosperous middle-class, Methodist family, with an Irish background on her mother's side. The speaker of Rukhmabai in Idylls of Womanhood depicts herself as a maid / Whose Irish blood must send her...
Cultural formation Anne Hart Gilbert
McDonald chose the Gilbert household as the base from which to pursue his mission, until he died of a violent fever on 4 December 1798. His death was a solemn yet, as their religion decreed...
Cultural formation Hesba Stretton
She grew up in a nonconformist environment that encouraged reading and learning.
Bratton, Jacqueline S. The Impact of Victorian Children’s Fiction. Croom Helm.
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Her religious faith was deeply influenced by the strong Evangelical Methodist beliefs of her mother.
Khorana, Meena, and Judith Gero John, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 163. Gale Research.
163: 288
Cultural formation Anne Hart Gilbert
In this dockyard community AHG , to her great but pleasant surprise, found a small society of [twenty-eight] black & coloured people calling themselves Methodists . Their piety withstood the disadvantages of lacking a chapel...
Cultural formation Lucy Boston
LB was born into a wealthy and strict English Wesleyan family. She generally saw her parents only once a day, at prayers, and on Sunday for both Chapel and dinner. She later refused to be...
Cultural formation Hesba Stretton
As an adult HS abandoned her mother 's strict Methodism and became an incurable sermon-taster. She favoured several denominations at the extreme of Protestantism. During the twelve-year period recorded in her Log Books only three...
Cultural formation Charlotte Brooke
Sources also differ as to whether her family were Church of IrelandAnglicans (following long tradition) and Charlotte later inclined to Methodism or Evangelicism, like her mother, or whether while many of her relations were...
Cultural formation Ann Martin Taylor
Born into the English Dissenting middle class, she held a strong religious faith which was the guiding principle of her life.
Cultural formation Josephine Butler
JB was born into a wealthy, presumably white family that instilled in its children Anglican and Evangelical piety and Liberal principles. Her religious activities were diverse and sometimes even seemingly contradictory. She recalls that her...
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 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.
Her nephew called her quintessentially English in background and personality.
Jenkins, Sir Michael, and Elizabeth Jenkins. “Introduction”. The View from Downshire Hill: A Memoir, Michael Russell, pp. 9-12.
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Timeline

January 1802: The Christian Observer was launched, as a...

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January 1802

The Christian Observer was launched, as a journalConducted by members of the established church with the aim of combating Methodism and other Dissenting sects as well as radicalism and scepticism.

1803: The Wesleyan Conference decided that their...

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1803

The Wesleyan Conference decided that their association (still within the Anglican Church but soon to form the new body of the Methodist Church ) should bar women from preaching.

1812: The Wesleyan Conference split from the Church...

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1812

The Wesleyan Conference split from the Church of England to form the Methodist Church .

By August 1833: Agnes Bulmer née Collinson (1775-1836) published...

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By August 1833

Agnes Bulmer née Collinson (1775-1836) published her Methodist epicpoemMessiah's Kingdom, in nearly 14,000 lines of rhymed couplets.

September 1853: The popular Methodist London Quarterly Review...

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September 1853

The popular Methodist LondonQuarterly Review began publication.

1881: About four hundred delegates from around...

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1881

About four hundred delegates from around thirty Methodist organizations met at Wesley's Chapel in London for an Ecumenical Methodist Conference: the first World Methodist Conference.
“Who We Are. History”. World Methodist Council.

1919: The Federal Council of the Evangelical Free...

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1919

The Federal Council of the Evangelical Free Churches was formed to foster co-operation among Free Churches.

20 September 1932: In London, the Methodist Church formally...

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20 September 1932

In London, the Methodist Church formally united its different groups under one body.

February 1987: The St Hilda Community, activists for Anglican...

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February 1987

The St Hilda Community , activists for Anglican women's ordination, held its first Eucharist service in the student chapel of Queen Mary College , London, celebrated by an ordained American, Suzanne Fageol .

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