Schlueter, Paul, and June Schlueter, editors. An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers. Garland.
Unitarian Church
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Julia Wedgwood | Her parents were connected to the Unitarian
tradition descending in the family from Josiah Wedgwood
as well as to the largely Anglican
evangelical and philanthropic Clapham Sect
centred close to their home in South London... |
Cultural formation | Beatrice Webb | Her family were Unitarian
s but her father converted to the Church of England
. She followed his example and was confirmed as an Anglican while at boarding school in Bournemouth. But the hold of... |
Cultural formation | Mary Augusta Ward | She was deeply familiar with Victorian religious crisis. Brought up in her mother's faith, Huguenot-descended protestantism, |
Family and Intimate relationships | Harriet Taylor | Harriet Hardy
, aged nineteen, married John Taylor
, a wealthy druggist, political radical, and active Unitarian
eleven years her senior. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. Hayek, Friedrich Augustus von et al. John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor; Their Correspondence [i.e. Friendship] and Subsequent Marriage. University of Chicago Press. 24 Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press. 208 Rose, Phyllis. Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages. Alfred A. Knopf. 101 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Harriet Taylor | HT
met John Stuart Mill
through her Unitarian
minister, William Fox
. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press. 208 |
Cultural formation | Harriet Taylor | Her parents were active Unitarians
, whose social circle included many London intellectuals and dissenters. Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge. Rose, Phyllis. Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages. Alfred A. Knopf. 101 |
Friends, Associates | Harriet Taylor | HT
's husband introduced her to the UnitarianMonthly Repository circle which included Harriet Martineau
, Eliza
and Sarah Flower
, and the Rev. William Fox
. Rose, Phyllis. Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages. Alfred A. Knopf. 103 Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Harriet Taylor | Despite their efforts to avoid scandal, HT
's relationship with John Stuart Mill
remained the subject of much gossip. Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press. 208 Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge. |
Cultural formation | Anna Swanwick | She remained a Unitarian
all her life, but was open-minded enough to enjoy discussing Unitarianism on equal terms with Catholicism, Judaism, and other forms of religious worship Bruce, Mary Louisa. Anna Swanwick, A Memoir and Recollections 1813-1899. T. F. Unwin. 155 |
Cultural formation | Anna Swanwick | She was born into a business family in that great and busy port, and brought up a Liberal and a Unitarian
. In 1831 James Martineau
became the Minister at the chapel in Paradise Street... |
Cultural formation | Hesba Stretton | |
Cultural formation | Lucy Toulmin Smith | LTS
's family had a long history of involvement in the UnitarianChurch
. Her great-great-grandfather, Joshua Toulmin
, was a significant figure in the formation of the English Unitarian Church as a distinct denomination, and... |
Cultural formation | Mary Sewell | Both of MS
's parents were members of the Society of Friends
, as were her husband's family. She remained a Friend, or Quaker, until 1835, when she joined the Church of England
after flirting... |
Cultural formation | Catharine Maria Sedgwick | Born into a wealthy upper-class American family, she was for several years a member of Dr Mason's Congregationalist Church
. She abandoned this denomination, however, in 1821 when she followed her dying father's example, and... |
Cultural formation | Mary Scott | MS
grew up in a prosperous, middle-class household, in which religion was the centre of everyday life and activity. Most sources agree that her family were Protestant Dissenters. Though Anna Seward
said they were Anglicans |
Timeline
1749: David Hartley published Observations on Man,...
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1749
David Hartley
published Observations on Man, his Frame, his Duties, and his Expectations, which established a materialist theory of the human mind.
1771: Political thinker Richard Price (who was...
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1771
Political thinker Richard Price
(who was later a Unitarian
) published probably the best-known attack on enclosures, Observations on Reversionary Payments, which went through six editions.
17 April 1774: The inaugural service was held at the first...
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17 April 1774
The inaugural service was held at the first Unitarian
chapel, in Essex Street, London.
April 1792: Mobs attacked houses and mills owned by Unitarians...
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April 1792
Mobs attacked houses and mills owned by Unitarians
in Nottingham; two months later, meeting-houses in Manchester were sacked, and, in November, mills in Belper.
11 May 1792: Edmund Burke in his Speech on the Petition...
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11 May 1792
Edmund Burke
in his Speech on the Petition of the Unitarians argued that Unitarians, who denied the doctrine of the Trinity, could not claim toleration like Catholics
, Presbyterian
s, Quakers
, and others.
1796: Joseph Priestley published at Philadelphia...
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1796
Joseph Priestley
published at PhiladelphiaUnitarianism Explained and Defended, in a Discourse Delivered in the Church of the Universalists, at Philadelphia.
1813: An Act of Parliament conferred legal status...
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1813
An Act of Parliament conferred legal status on the Unitarians
by absolving them of the official charge of blasphemy.
October 1891: The Labour Church, an organization professing...
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October 1891
The Labour Church
, an organization professing Christian Socialism, held its first service, in Manchester. Its founder, John Trevor
, had been a Unitarian
minister.
29 September 1904: Gertrude von Petzold, a German Unitarian,...
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29 September 1904
Gertrude von Petzold
, a German Unitarian
, became the first woman to act as a minister in England since before the Victorian age.
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