Congregational Church

Religion was a source of conflict in SM 's personal life and in her husband's professional life. An early relationship with a Nonconformist distanced SM from the high Anglican tradition embraced by her parents and...

EPL grew up in a large, upper-middle-class, Liberal family that taught her to disregard class distinction. Her father came from a long line of Cornish farmers who were devoted Methodist s. As a young...

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...

ES was not as thoroughly working-class as has been claimed, but she came from a relatively humble urban English background. There is little evidence of her personal attitudes, but there is evidence of membership in...