Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Methodist Church
Connections
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Literary responses | Ethel Wilson | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Fanny Kemble | Dr William Ellery Channing
, an American Unitarian
and friend of Lucy Aikin
, met and befriended FK
. His views came to influence hers. Marshall, Dorothy. Fanny Kemble. Weidenfeld and Nicholson. 93 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Susanna Wesley | SW
bore the child who became the most famous of all her offspring: John Wesley
, father of Methodism
. Wesley, Susanna. “Introduction”. Susanna Wesley: The Complete Writings, edited by Charles Wallace, Oxford University Press. xiii |
Family and Intimate relationships | Cassandra Cooke | 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. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ethel Wilson | Ethel Bryant
married Dr Wallace Algernon Wilson
, at a quiet ceremony at Wesley Methodist Church
in Vancouver. McAlpine, Mary. The Other Side of Silence: A Life of Ethel Wilson. Harbour. 67-8 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ethel Wilson | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Hart Gilbert | She had met him while she was a schoolteacher. He was a widower (only five years her senior) of an English family long settled in the Caribbean, who worked both as a baker and as... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Eliza Fenwick | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ethel Wilson | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ann Martin Taylor | Her father had already treated her harshly, though he was one of the first converts of the early Methodist
preacher George Whitefield
. Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Ann Taylor Gilbert’s Album. Editor Stewart, Christina Duff, Garland. 521 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Jenkins | His father, Ebenezer Jenkins
, was a Methodist
missionary in India during the 1840s. James Heald Jenkins was his only son. Jenkins, Elizabeth. The View from Downshire Hill. Michael Johnson. 13 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Bosanquet Fletcher | He was of Swiss origin, ten years her senior (born in 1729 at Nyon near Geneva), and a fellow-evangelical. In 1773 John Wesley
had approached him about taking on leadership of the Methodist movement... |
Education | Marie Belloc Lowndes | |
Education | Ethel Wilson | 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,... |
death | Susanna Wesley |
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