Methodist Church

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...

McDonald chose the Gilbert household as the base from which to pursue his mission, until he died of a violent fever on 4 December 1798. His death was a solemn yet, as their religion decreed...

The child of wealthy English Anglican family of Huguenot extraction, Mary Bosanquet received at about the age of four what she felt to be a proof that God answers prayer. At five she developed an...

At Christmas either this year or the previous one JS joined the Methodists , but they rebuffed her when she began talking about the Spirit. The Church of England also responded with hostility to her...

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...

In this dockyard community AHG , to her great but pleasant surprise, found a small society of [twenty-eight] black & coloured people calling themselves Methodists . Their piety withstood the disadvantages of lacking a chapel...

At eighteen, while her family moved on from the London season to the fashionable seaside resort of Scarborough, she got permission to stay on in London at the house of an uncle, where she overtaxed...

CS 's family was church-going, Methodist . For a while she attended a Quaker meeting, but by the 1980s she described herself as notreligious.

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...

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...

The new vicar (who did not live in the parish) respected her so highly that he allowed her to appoint a curate (the vicar's substitute) of her own choice, Mr Horne. She was personally sorry...

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...

She came from the middle class, from a family with a strong Methodist tradition. In later life she became a believer in spiritualism. Her nephew called her quintessentially English in background and personality.

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.

MAS was an earnest religious seeker. Brought up in the Society of Friends, she had years of doubt, of misery, of darkness, and became successively a Quaker , a Methodist , and finally a Moravian