Congregational Church

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...

In 1816, HBS went to stay for a time with her grandmother in a setting widely different from her birth home. Her father's home is described as being Congregational and democratic in contrast to the...

As an adult HS abandoned her mother 's strict Methodism and became an incurable sermon-taster. She favoured several denominations at the extreme of Protestantism. During the twelve-year period recorded in her Log Books only three...

The Literary World was apparently mistaken in calling EJWthe novelist of Evangelical Dissent and in speculating as to whether or not she ever left the Anglican Church. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography...