Methodist Church

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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 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.
196
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
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 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
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 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 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.
12
Cultural formation L. M. Montgomery
During the 1920s, LMM and her husband fought against the proposed merging of the Presbyterian and Methodist churches. In January 1925, the Leaksdale church, under the leadership of Macdonald, voted against union.
Rubio, Mary, and Elizabeth Waterston. Writing a Life: L.M. Montgomery. ECW Press.
78
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
At eighteen, while her family moved on from the London season to the fashionable seaside resort of Scarborough, she got permission to stay on in London at the house of an uncle, where she overtaxed...

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