Methodist Church

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...

He was of Swiss origin, ten years her senior (born in 1729 at Nyon near Geneva), and a fellow-evangelical. In 1773 John Wesley had approached him about taking on leadership of the Methodist movement...

The new vicar (who did not live in the parish) respected her so highly that he allowed her to appoint a curate (the vicar's substitute) of her own choice, Mr Horne. She was personally sorry...

MF 's contributors here, both men and women, look back at childhoods in which belief and observance were integral parts. They include those whose remembered experience was gleaned within different faiths: Anglican , Roman Catholic

The mother and grandmother of Anne and her sister Elizabeth were Methodists, and the girls themselves were baptised Methodists in 1786, the year after their mother's death, during a missionary visit to Antigua. After their...

She had met him while she was a schoolteacher. He was a widower (only five years her senior) of an English family long settled in the Caribbean, who worked both as a baker and as...

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...

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...

After a short, modest statement of unwillingness, AHG sets out to detail the rise, progress and present state of Methodism in the West Indies, a subject which also involves her detailing the progress of...

After this tirade the novel is more fun than one might anticipate. The title-page quotes Sir John Vanbrugh . The story opens with SG 's gentleman hero, Percival Ellingford, a recent convert to Methodism ...

She came from the middle class, from a family with a strong Methodist tradition. In later life she became a believer in spiritualism. Her nephew called her quintessentially English in background and personality.

His father, Ebenezer Jenkins , was a Methodist missionary in India during the 1840s. James Heald Jenkins was his only son.

Her Clarissa (a neighbour who, says JJ , is thus called because I take pleasure in the name)is comfortably married to a gentleman with sufficient money, and devotes her leisure to...

Dr William Ellery Channing , an American Unitarian and friend of Lucy Aikin , met and befriended FK . His views came to influence hers. She also met Harriet Martineau while in the USA.

Not much is known about her life. English, middle-class, and presumably white, she was raised in the Wesleyan church .