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Birth | Ethel Wilson | Ethel Bryant (later EW
) was born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, of Wesleyan Methodist
missionary parents. She was their only surviving child. Stouck, David. Ethel Wilson: A Critical Biography. University of Toronto Press, 2003. 3, 8 |
Characters | Sarah Green | After this tirade the novel is more fun than one might anticipate. The title-page quotes Sir John Vanbrugh
. The story opens with SG
's gentleman hero, Percival Ellingford, a recent convert to Methodism
... |
Cultural formation | Harriet Corp | |
Cultural formation | Rudyard Kipling | As an English boy and then man in India, Rudyard must have been constantly aware of his status as one of the white race and administrative ruling class. His earliest memories of India were impressions... |
Cultural formation | Joanna Baillie | JB
was a Scottish writer: though she lived most of her adult life in London, her letters show her vividly aware of her Scots identity, not least in her deliberate use of the Scotticisms which... |
Cultural formation | Mary Prince | Some years after this, one Christmas, attendance at a Methodist
meeting at Date Hill in Antigua made a great impression on MP
's mind, and led my spirit to the Moravian church. Prince, Mary, and Ziggi Alexander. The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave. Ferguson, MoiraEditor , Pandora, 1987. 73 |
Cultural formation | Olaudah Equiano | |
Cultural formation | Mary Prince | The Methodist Church
had broken away from the Church of England
in 1812, but it seems that five years later there was no gulf between the two groups, at least in the Caribbean. |
Cultural formation | Olaudah Equiano | He was baptised into the |
Cultural formation | Ethel Wilson | |
Cultural formation | Anne Hart Gilbert | The mother and grandmother of Anne and her sister Elizabeth were Methodists, and the girls themselves were baptised Methodists
in 1786, the year after their mother's death, during a missionary visit to Antigua. After their... |
Cultural formation | Judith Cowper Madan | Born into the English professional class, to a family with strong connections with the law, JCM
became deeply religious. When the Methodist
movement got going (still within the Church of England
) it attracted her strongly. |
Cultural formation | Louisa Baldwin | Welsh on her mother
's side and Scottish on her father
's, LB
came from a remarkable, Middlemas, Keith, and John Barnes. Baldwin: A Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1969. 7 Taylor, Ina. Victorian Sisters. Adler and Adler, 1987. 20 Middlemas, Keith, and John Barnes. Baldwin: A Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1969. 7-8 |
Cultural formation | Kathleen Raine | KR
was brought up in her father's Wesleyan Methodist
faith, and also introduced to her maternal family's Presbyterianism
by her Scottish relatives. She wrote of being drawn more strongly to the Greek myths in her... |
Cultural formation | Eliza Fenwick |