Methodist Church

EF 's father, Peter Jaco , born in 1721, was a Cornishman, who early in life worked for his father in the pilchard fishery; ships owned by the family sailed in the Mediterranean. EF said...

At Cadiz in Spain, OE had a spiritual reawakening which he calls conversion, after which he worshipped as a Methodist as well as an Anglican . His conversion came as the climax and resolution...

He was baptised into the Church of England at St Margaret's, Westminster, in 1759, and had a spiritual experience of conversion and rebirth fifteen years later, after which he became a Methodist (still at...

HC was an Evangelical, and may have been a Quaker or a Methodist .

The letters in Christian Sects (which is headed by three quotations, one of them from St John's Gospel) are said to have been exchanged between one of the editors of the Small Books, and...

Cassandra's cousin Jane Austen criticised the household management of Samuel Cooke (who was her godfather), judging him a disagreable, fidgetty master to his servants. In his professional capacity he worried about competing with the Methodists

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...

The son of a vicar, he preached publicly and toyed with the idea of entering the Unitarian ministry. He worked as a journalist for the Morning Post and lectured widely on both literature and philosophy.

Her family was mixed, her mother being an English Methodist and her father an Irish Catholic , who had moved away from his Celtic roots by changing his name from MacOwen to Owenson and his...

This one-volume novel was based on the lives of MethodistsGeorge Whitefield and John Wesley . It advocates diary-keeping as a means by which women can maintain serenity in the midst of domestic disharmony.

JC , daughter of Welsh and English parents, came from the lower middle class (she mentions her humble station). She grew up with her father's fierce critiques of Anglican practice, yet attended Anglican...

JB was born into a wealthy, presumably white family that instilled in its children Anglican and Evangelical piety and Liberal principles. Her religious activities were diverse and sometimes even seemingly contradictory. She recalls that her...

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...

LB was born into a wealthy and strict English Wesleyan 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...

Like AB 's early novels and two collections of short stories, these are set in the five towns of the Potteries. Clayhanger is set in the past: during the industrial revolution and the days...