Methodist Church

Connections

Connections Sort descending Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation Mary Prince
Some years after this, one Christmas, attendance at a Methodist meeting at Date Hill in Antigua made a great impression on MP 's mind, and led my spirit to the Moravian church.
Prince, Mary, and Ziggi Alexander. The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave. Editor Ferguson, Moira, Pandora, 1987.
73
Cultural formation Harriet Corp
HC was an Evangelical, and may have been a Quaker or a Methodist .
Cultural formation May Kendall
Not much is known about her life.
Leighton, Angela, and Margaret Reynolds, editors. Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology. Blackwell, 1995.
627
English, middle-class, and presumably white, she was raised in the Wesleyan church .
Cultural formation Mary Prince
The Methodist Church had broken away from the Church of England in 1812, but it seems that five years later there was no gulf between the two groups, at least in the Caribbean.
Cultural formation Olaudah Equiano
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...
Cultural formation Hannah Kilham
HK converted from Methodism to Quakerism , to which she had been leaning for some time; she now applied to join the monthly meeting at Balby near Doncaster.
Dickson, Mora. The Powerful Bond: Hannah Kilham 1774-1832. Dobson, 1980.
61
Cultural formation Mehetabel Wright
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...
Cultural formation Mary Tighe
MT 's gentry-class family had links with the English nobility; nevertheless, her Irish identity was important to her. Her parents were a prominent Methodist and a clergyman in the Church of Ireland .
Cultural formation Louisa Baldwin
Welsh on her mother 's side and Scottish on her father 's, LB came from a remarkable,
Middlemas, Keith, and John Barnes. Baldwin: A Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1969.
7
presumably white, Methodist family.
Taylor, Ina. Victorian Sisters. Adler and Adler, 1987.
20
Middlemas, Keith, and John Barnes. Baldwin: A Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1969.
7-8
Cultural formation Olaudah Equiano
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...
Cultural formation Hannah Kilham
She was brought up as an Anglican , but converted first to Wesleyan Methodism (in which her mother had shown some interest) and later to Quakerism .
Cultural formation Flora Thompson
Although strongly influenced by her Methodist grandfather, FT grew up in the Anglican Church. She remained an Anglican even though she was attracted to the Catholic Church in later life.
Lindsay, Gillian. Flora Thompson: The Story of the Lark Rise Writer. Hale, 1996.
71, 133
Cultural formation Eliza Fenwick
Brought up in all the fervour of early Methodism (to which each of her parents had devoted their life before she was born), EF seems to have retained no trace of it after she was...
Cultural formation Hannah Kilham
As a Methodist Hannah Spurr (later HK ) was deeply distressed in August 1797 by the split between the bulk of the sect and the New Connection founded by her future husband. After long wavering...
Cultural formation Ann Martin Taylor
Born into the EnglishDissenting middle class, she held a strong religious faith which was the guiding principle of her life.

Timeline

January 1802: The Christian Observer was launched, as a...

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January 1802

The Christian Observer was launched, as a journal Conducted by members of the established church with the aim of combating Methodism and other Dissenting sects as well as radicalism and scepticism.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1803: The Wesleyan Conference decided that their...

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1803

The Wesleyan Conference decided that their association (still within the Anglican Church but soon to form the new body of the Methodist Church ) should bar women from preaching.
Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton, 1996.
207

1812: The Wesleyan Conference split from the Church...

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1812

The Wesleyan Conference split from the Church of England to form the Methodist Church .
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
49

By August 1833: Agnes Bulmer née Collinson (1775-1836) published...

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By August 1833

Agnes Bulmer née Collinson (1775-1836) published her Methodist epic poem Messiah's Kingdom, in nearly 14,000 lines of rhymed couplets.
Winckles, Andrew O. “The Book of Nature and the Methodist Epic: Agnes Bulmer’s Analogic Poetics and the End(s) of Romanticism”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
22
, No. 2, May 2015, pp. 209-28.
219, 210

September 1853: The popular Methodist London Quarterly Review...

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September 1853

The popular Methodist London Quarterly Review began publication.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
4: 371-4, 378

1881: About four hundred delegates from around...

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1881

About four hundred delegates from around thirty Methodist organizations met at Wesley's Chapel in London for an Ecumenical Methodist Conference: the first World Methodist Conference.
“Who We Are. History”. World Methodist Council.

1919: The Federal Council of the Evangelical Free...

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1919

The Federal Council of the Evangelical Free Churches was formed to foster co-operation among Free Churches.
Mews, Constance. “Religious Thinker: ’A Frail Human Being’ on Fiery Life”. Voice of the Living Light: Hildegard of Bingen and Her World, edited by Barbara Newman, University of California Press, 1998, pp. 52-69.
452

20 September 1932: In London, the Methodist Church formally...

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20 September 1932

In London, the Methodist Church formally united its different groups under one body.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
376
Davies, Rupert E., and E. Gordon Rupp, editors. A History of the Methodist Church in Great Britain. Epworth, 1965–2026.
178

February 1987: The St Hilda Community, activists for Anglican...

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February 1987

The St Hilda Community , activists for Anglican women's ordination, held its first Eucharist service in the student chapel of Queen Mary College , London, celebrated by an ordained American, Suzanne Fageol .
Furlong, Monica. “The St Hilda Community—narrative of a group which supports female priests”. The Ecumenical Review, Vol.
53
, No. 1, Jan. 2001, pp. 82-5.

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