Methodist Church

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 .)

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 .

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.

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

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

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...

She grew up in a nonconformist environment that encouraged reading and learning. Her religious faith was deeply influenced by the strong Evangelical Methodist beliefs of her mother.

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...

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.

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...

CS 's family was church-going, Methodist . For a while she attended a Quaker meeting, but by the 1980s she described herself as notreligious.

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...

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...

MAS was an earnest religious seeker. Brought up in the Society of Friends, she had years of doubt, of misery, of darkness, and became successively a Quaker , a Methodist , and finally a Moravian

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...