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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Julia Wedgwood | 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
.) Wedgwood, Barbara, and Hensleigh Wedgwood. The Wedgwood Circle, 1730-1897: Four Generations of a Family and Their Friends. Studio Vista. 330 Wedgwood, Julia. The Moral Ideal. Trübner. |
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
. |
Cultural formation | Flora Thompson | |
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. |
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 |
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 | 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. 81 Khorana, Meena, and Judith Gero John, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 163. Gale Research. 163: 288 |
Cultural formation | Hesba Stretton | |
Cultural formation | Joanna Southcott | She created her own, millenarian religious sect after the Methodists
and the Church of England
(both of whose services she attended) had rebuffed her unconventional advances. She is, however, often associated with the Methodists. Hopkins, James K. A Woman To Deliver her People: Joanna Southcott and English Millenarianism in an Era of Revolution. University of Texas Press. 47, 58, 35 |
Cultural formation | Joanna Southcott | At Christmas either this year or the previous one JS
joined the Methodists
, but they rebuffed her when she began talking about the Spirit. The Church of England
also responded with hostility to her... |
Cultural formation | Carol Shields | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Martha Sherwood | Brought up in Italy and neglected by her parents, the eponymous heroine of Victoria causes consternation at the age of ten by announcing that she has converted to Catholicism
. When her father demands whether... |
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 | Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck | |
Cultural formation | Kathleen Raine | KR
was brought up in her father's Wesleyan Methodist
faith, and also introduced to her maternal family's Presbyterianism
by her Scottish relatives. She wrote of being drawn more strongly to the Greek myths in her... |
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