Methodist Church

Ethel Bryant (later EW ) was born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, of Wesleyan Methodist missionary parents. She was their only surviving child.

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 ...

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...

Born into the EnglishDissenting middle class, she held a strong religious faith which was the guiding principle of her life.

Though she was and remained, she said, a staunch Churchwoman myself, and yield to no one in pure love and reverence for my own form of worship, she was nonetheless warm in her tribute...

Born in South Africa to white parents of British origin but later settled in Canada, and accustomed in later years to a high professional standard of living, EW had a Methodist , comfortable, sheltered upbringing...

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 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.

She grew up in a nonconformist environment that encouraged reading and learning. Her religious faith was deeply influenced by the strong Evangelical Methodist beliefs of her mother.

LB was born into a wealthy and strict EnglishWesleyan family. She generally saw her parents only once a day, at prayers, and on Sunday for both Chapel and dinner. She later refused to be...

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...

From about this time she associated herself with John Wesley 's fairly new religious group called the Methodists (then part of the Church of England). Another influence on her religious thinking was Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon

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...

Sources also differ as to whether her family were Church of IrelandAnglicans (following long tradition) and Charlotte later inclined to Methodism or Evangelicism, like her mother, or whether while many of her relations were...

The child of wealthy English Anglican family of Huguenot extraction, Mary Bosanquet received at about the age of four what she felt to be a proof that God answers prayer. At five she developed an...