Unitarian Church

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
She was not baptised, since her father regarded the ceremony as a mere unmeaning shibboleth. Her radical and Unitarian family background encouraged her bent towards feminism and educational reform. She herself seems to have been...
Cultural formation Anne Marsh
AM was born into a family of the English gentry—though her father was half-Scots and originated from a much lower class. He and his family had been only two years at Talke at the time...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Gaskell
EG was brought up in the Unitarian faith, taught to reject the concept of the Trinity and that of original sin, and to believe in the Scriptures and in reason. Unitarians presumed that the mind...
Cultural formation Mary Scott
MS became a Unitarian like John Taylor before she married him. It has been said that she followed him again in his further change of religious affiliation, becoming a Quaker in 1790.
Cultural formation Isabella Neil Harwood
Her father's family had a Baptist background, but there is no record that Phillip himself was ever a member of a Baptist church. By the time INH was born, he had already been a Unitarian
Cultural formation Mary Carpenter
She belonged to the English middle class; her parents were members of the intellectual aristrocracy of English puritanism, as her father was a dissenting Unitarian minister.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
She was the first of six children, three daughters...
Cultural formation Harriet Martineau
The English Martineaus came from French Huguenot stock: the first member of the family (according to HM herself) had settled in Norwich in 1688. She made a point, in a correction to the information provided...
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...
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, 1990.
Hayek, Friedrich Augustus von et al. John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor; Their Correspondence [i.e. Friendship] and Subsequent Marriage. University of Chicago Press, 1951.
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Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press, 1985–2025, 2 vols.
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Rose, Phyllis. Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages. Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.
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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, 1990.
Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press, 1985–2025, 2 vols.
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Family and Intimate relationships Eleanor Rathbone
ER 's father was the sixth William Rathbone in a Lancashire family which was Quaker , Unitarian , Liberal and philanthropic. For six generations this family had been the epitome of fair trading, plain speaking...
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, 1985–2025, 2 vols.
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Rumours travelled through London's Unitarian circles.
Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989.
Both Mill's father, James Mill , and his friend...
Family and Intimate relationships Margaret Fuller
Her father, Timothy Fuller , was also a teacher, then a lawyer and politician. A graduate of Harvard University , he served in both the Massachusetts senate and house of representatives, and he became a...
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Scott
John Taylor had been a classical tutor in the Daventry Academy and a minister in the English Presbyterian church. By the time of his marriage his search for the truth had led him to join...
Family and Intimate relationships Isabella Neil Harwood
INH 's father, Phillip Harwood , held many jobs. At the time of her birth he was a minister for a Unitarian parish. He later worked as a journalist and an editor.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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