Methodist Church

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...

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

Ethel Bryant married Dr Wallace Algernon Wilson , at a quiet ceremony at Wesley Methodist Church in Vancouver.

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...

EW 's mother was Eliza Davis Malkin , called Lila. She was the oldest of nine children born to a serious, deeply pious Wesleyan Methodist family at Burslem in Staffordshire, England. Upon marriage...

EW lived with her grandmother and two unmarried aunts, all with deep Wesleyan faith, for twenty-one years until Annie Malkin's death in 1919. EW later regarded her Methodist upbringing as restricted and blinkered, yet at...

As a teenager EW was sent back to England for further education at Trinity Hall School in Southport, Lancashire, a Wesleyan Methodist boarding school for girls. She later recalled this as a highly regimented,...

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...

Volume one begins with a discussion of religion in Wales, followed by a short biography of Davis's father, the Methodist preacher Dafydd Cadwaladyr . The book then moves into a first-person account of Davis

The MethodistArminian Magazine carried the poem which was until recently regarded as PW 's last, An Elegy on Leaving —. It seem, though, that this was not by Wheatley but by Mary Whateley Darwall .

SW bore the child who became the most famous of all her offspring: John Wesley , father of Methodism .

SW died at her son John 's Methodist headquarters of The Foundery in London.