Methodist Church

Ethel Bryant married Dr Wallace Algernon Wilson , at a quiet ceremony at Wesley Methodist Church in Vancouver.

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...

EW 's mother was Eliza Davis Malkin , called Lila. She was the oldest of nine children born to a serious, deeply pious Wesleyan Methodist family at Burslem in Staffordshire, England. Upon marriage...

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.

Roger Lonsdale in 1990 followed Falconer Madan in supposing that her child-bearing and the influence of John Wesley and the Methodists amounted to sufficient explanation for her ceasing to write. Valerie Rumbold suggested in 1996...

Later critics concede that the work has value despite the apparent vapidity of the Aunt Topaz character. William H. New has argued that her lack of depth helps illustrate her anachronistic function, which reveals the...

Three biographies appeared in the years following MBF 's death, and went through many re-issues. Local memory of her remained strong (as instanced by the Memorial Chapel at Leyton Wesleyan church), and so did international...

Like AB 's early novels and two collections of short stories, these are set in the five towns of the Potteries. Clayhanger is set in the past: during the industrial revolution and the days...

This one-volume novel was based on the lives of MethodistsGeorge Whitefield and John Wesley . It advocates diary-keeping as a means by which women can maintain serenity in the midst of domestic disharmony.

JCM continued occasionally to address short poems to her husband. One survives which she wrote to her two daughters, and two written to a baby grandson (one before and one after his death). After...

That same year CP published Reasons why the People called Quakers cannot so fully unite with the Methodists, in their Missions to the Negroes in the West Indian Islands and Africa, as freely to...

Until the age of thirty-one EW continued to live with her grandmother Annie Malkin and two elderly aunts. The household was severe for a young woman: on Sundays, Annie Malkin's strict Methodist sensibilities led her...

EPL began to be active in the Working Girls' Club of the MethodistWest London Mission .

The son of a vicar, he preached publicly and toyed with the idea of entering the Unitarian ministry. He worked as a journalist for the Morning Post and lectured widely on both literature and philosophy.

MBF seems to have been too much occupied with the religious life to have much thought to spare for earthly politics. At the beginning of December 1792, however, after a conversation with someone anxious about...