Methodist Church

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

Both parents came from Dissenting backgrounds; Ivy's maternal grandfather was a fervent Methodist . She herself, after inventing fictitious deities as a child and being baptised and confirmed in the Anglican church, chose from an...

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...

KR was brought up in her father's Wesleyan Methodist faith, and also introduced to her maternal family's Presbyterianism by her Scottish relatives. She wrote of being drawn more strongly to the Greek myths in her...

Sydney Owenson was born to an English Methodist mother with leanings towards the sect called the Countess of Huntingdon's Connection , and an Irish, originally Catholic , father. She aligned herself strongly with the Irish...

SW died at her son John 's Methodist headquarters of The Foundery in London.

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

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,...

SW bore the child who became the most famous of all her offspring: John Wesley , father of Methodism .

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...

Ethel Bryant married Dr Wallace Algernon Wilson , at a quiet ceremony at Wesley Methodist Church in Vancouver.

Her father had already treated her harshly, though he was one of the first converts of the early Methodist preacher George Whitefield .

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...

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...

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...