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Cultural formation | Hannah Kilham | |
Cultural formation | Hannah Kilham | She was brought up as an Anglican
, but converted first to Wesleyan Methodism
(in which her mother had shown some interest) and later to Quakerism
. |
Cultural formation | Hannah Kilham | As a Methodist
Hannah Spurr (later HK
) was deeply distressed in August 1797 by the split between the bulk of the sect and the New Connection
founded by her future husband. After long wavering... |
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... |
Education | Marie Belloc Lowndes | |
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 | Judith Cowper Madan | 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 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Judith Cowper Madan | JCM
continued occasionally to address short poems to her husband. One survives which she wrote to her two daughters, and two written to a baby grandson (one before and one after his death). Madan, Falconer. The Madan Family. Oxford University Press. 270-2 |
Literary responses | Judith Cowper Madan | Roger Lonsdale
in 1990 followed Falconer Madan
in supposing that her child-bearing and the influence of John Wesley
and the Methodists
amounted to sufficient explanation for her ceasing to write. Valerie Rumbold
suggested in 1996... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Charlotte McCarthy | The poems include reworkings of pastoral, occasional poems (one of them inscribed in a volume belonging to a friend), and comment on public affairs. The opening three, addressed to Chloe, are conventional in tone... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Charlotte McCarthy | Here CMC
voices various complaints: of sufferings caused by the Dearness of Provisions, of the impossibility of women's earning a living, of the nation's wickedness, the decline of charity, the prevalence of atheists, and of... |
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. 78 |
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... |
Occupation | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | EPL
began to be active in the Working Girls' Club
of the MethodistWest London Mission
. Some sources, for instance the website of the Women's Library
, date her work with the club as... |
Cultural formation | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence |
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