LB
was born into a wealthy and strict English Wesleyan
family. She generally saw her parents only once a day, at prayers, and on Sunday for both Chapel and dinner. She later refused to be...
Cultural formation
Charlotte Brooke
Sources also differ as to whether her family were Church of IrelandAnglicans
(following long tradition) and Charlotte later inclined to Methodism
or Evangelicism, like her mother, or whether while many of her relations were...
Cultural formation
Ann Martin Taylor
Born into the English Dissenting
middle class, she held a strong religious faith which was the guiding principle of her life.
Characters
Sarah Green
After this tirade the novel is more fun than one might anticipate. The title-page quotes Sir John Vanbrugh
. The story opens with SG
's gentleman hero, Percival Ellingford, a recent convert to Methodism
...
Birth
Ethel Wilson
Ethel Bryant (later EW
) was born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, of Wesleyan Methodist
missionary parents. She was their only surviving child.
Stouck, David. Ethel Wilson: A Critical Biography. University of Toronto Press.