Stouck, David. Ethel Wilson: A Critical Biography. University of Toronto Press, 2003.
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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 | Catharine Amy Dawson Scott | Hers was a prosperous middle-class, Methodist
family, with an Irish background on her mother's side. The speaker of Rukhmabai in Idylls of Womanhood depicts herself as a maid / Whose Irish blood must send her... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Jenkins | She came from the middle class, from a family with a strong Methodist
tradition. In later life she became a believer in spiritualism. “Elizabeth Jenkins”. The Telegraph, 6 Sept. 2010. Beauman, Nicola. “Elizabeth Jenkins Obituary”. The Guardian, 7 Sept. 2010. qtd. in Jenkins, Sir Michael, and Elizabeth Jenkins. “Introduction”. The View from Downshire Hill: A Memoir, Michael Russell, 2004, pp. 9-12. 12 |
Cultural formation | L. M. Montgomery | During the 1920s, LMM
and her husband fought against the proposed merging of the Presbyterian
and Methodist
churches. In January 1925, the Leaksdale church, under the leadership of Macdonald, voted against union. Rubio, Mary, and Elizabeth Waterston. Writing a Life: L.M. Montgomery. ECW Press, 1995. 78 |
Cultural formation | Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck | |
Cultural formation | Ivy Compton-Burnett | Both parents came from Dissenting
backgrounds; Ivy's maternal grandfather was a fervent Methodist
. She herself, after inventing fictitious deities as a child and being baptised and confirmed in the Anglican
church, chose from an... |
Cultural formation | Susanna Moodie | In her late twenties, Susanna met Thomas Pringle
, Methodist
secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society
in England, who influenced her involvement with the abolitionist movement and her decision to join a Nonconformist congregation near Reydon... |
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 | Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan | Sydney Owenson was born to an English Methodist
mother with leanings towards the sect called the Countess of Huntingdon's Connection
, and an Irish, originally Catholic
, father. She aligned herself strongly with the Irish... |
Cultural formation | Mary Prince | She was already ageing when she had a conversion experience and joined a Christian sect, the Methodists or Moravians
, when she happened to attend one of their services and heard the first prayers I... |
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. Editor Ferguson, Moira, Pandora, 1987. 73 |
Cultural formation | Harriet Corp | |
Cultural formation | May Kendall | Not much is known about her life. Leighton, Angela, and Margaret Reynolds, editors. Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology. Blackwell, 1995. 627 |
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