Methodist Church

In 1912 EW was briefly engaged to a Methodist lawyer, John Pethybridge Nicolls , whose family was close with her grandmother. She had known him since she was a young teenager; he was almost twenty...

Until the age of thirty-one EW continued to live with her grandmother Annie Malkin and two elderly aunts. The household was severe for a young woman: on Sundays, Annie Malkin's strict Methodist sensibilities led her...

While EW 's younger cousins had thought her family home was an impossible environment for a young woman, it is unclear that she was unhappy and it is unlikely that she rebelled. Thus, although EW's...

Later critics concede that the work has value despite the apparent vapidity of the Aunt Topaz character. William H. New has argued that her lack of depth helps illustrate her anachronistic function, which reveals the...

From a family which was financially precarious though middle-class by birth, MW seems to have questioned the religious fervour typical of its other members (at first Anglican , in due course Methodist ), while also...