Methodist Church

EW lived with her grandmother and two unmarried aunts, all with deep Wesleyan faith, for twenty-one years until Annie Malkin's death in 1919. EW later regarded her Methodist upbringing as restricted and blinkered, yet at...

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,...

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...

Until the age of thirty-one EW continued to live with her grandmother Annie Malkin and two elderly aunts. The household was severe for a young woman: on Sundays, Annie Malkin's strict Methodist sensibilities led her...

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...