Methodist Church

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.

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 .

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...

As an English boy and then man in India, Rudyard must have been constantly aware of his status as one of the white race and administrative ruling class. His earliest memories of India were impressions...

In November 1874 a great change came in Marie's life when her mother engaged for her children an English nurse, Sarah Mew , a Wesleyan of a rigid type, though she had leanings towards Methodism

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...

Roger Lonsdale in 1990 followed Falconer Madan in supposing that her child-bearing and the influence of John Wesley and the Methodists amounted to sufficient explanation for her ceasing to write. Valerie Rumbold suggested in 1996...

Born into the English professional class, to a family with strong connections with the law, JCM became deeply religious. When the Methodist movement got going (still within the Church of England ) it attracted her strongly.

From about this time she associated herself with John Wesley 's fairly new religious group called the Methodists (then part of the Church of England). Another influence on her religious thinking was Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon

The poems include reworkings of pastoral, occasional poems (one of them inscribed in a volume belonging to a friend), and comment on public affairs. The opening three, addressed to Chloe, are conventional in tone...

Here CMC voices various complaints: of sufferings caused by the Dearness of Provisions, of the impossibility of women's earning a living, of the nation's wickedness, the decline of charity, the prevalence of atheists, and of...

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.

In her late twenties, Susanna met Thomas Pringle , Methodist secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society in England, who influenced her involvement with the abolitionist movement and her decision to join a Nonconformist congregation near Reydon...

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

EPL grew up in a large, upper-middle-class, Liberal family that taught her to disregard class distinction. Her father came from a long line of Cornish farmers who were devoted Methodist s. As a young...