Methodist Church

MF 's contributors here, both men and women, look back at childhoods in which belief and observance were integral parts. They include those whose remembered experience was gleaned within different faiths: Anglican , Roman Catholic

The introductory essay named in the title is a history and an analysis of (in Burke 's phrase a philosophical enquiry into) Dissent in Britain. Its topics include the loss of status for ministers who...

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...

Many re-issues followed, extending to the year 1815. The original edition mentions that it was sold at the Foundry, Moorfields (which was Methodism 's continuing centre in London). Others were sold at the New...

Mary Bosanquet dated a letter which was printed three years later as a pamphlet at both London and Bristol: Jesus, Altogether Lovely; or, A Letter to Some of the Single Women in the Methodist Society

MBF seems to have been too much occupied with the religious life to have much thought to spare for earthly politics. At the beginning of December 1792, however, after a conversation with someone anxious about...

EPL began to be active in the Working Girls' Club of the MethodistWest London Mission .

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.

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...

That same year CP published Reasons why the People called Quakers cannot so fully unite with the Methodists, in their Missions to the Negroes in the West Indian Islands and Africa, as freely to...

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). After...

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.

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...

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...

Three biographies appeared in the years following MBF 's death, and went through many re-issues. Local memory of her remained strong (as instanced by the Memorial Chapel at Leyton Wesleyan church), and so did international...