“Elizabeth Jenkins”. The Telegraph.
Methodist Church
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Mary Bosanquet Fletcher | At eighteen, while her family moved on from the London season to the fashionable seaside resort of Scarborough, she got permission to stay on in London at the house of an uncle, where she overtaxed... |
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... |
Cultural formation | Mary Bosanquet Fletcher | The new vicar (who did not live in the parish) respected her so highly that he allowed her to appoint a curate (the vicar's substitute) of her own choice, Mr Horne. She was personally sorry... |
Textual Features | Monica Furlong | MF
's contributors here, both men and women, look back at childhoods in which belief and observance were integral parts. They include those whose remembered experience was gleaned within different faiths: Anglican
, Roman Catholic |
Cultural formation | Anne Hart Gilbert | The mother and grandmother of Anne and her sister Elizabeth were Methodists, and the girls themselves were baptised Methodists
in 1786, the year after their mother's death, during a missionary visit to Antigua. After their... |
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... |
Cultural formation | Anne Hart Gilbert | McDonald chose the Gilbert household as the base from which to pursue his mission, until he died of a violent fever on 4 December 1798. His death was a solemn yet, as their religion decreed... |
Cultural formation | Anne Hart Gilbert | In this dockyard community AHG
, to her great but pleasant surprise, found a small society of [twenty-eight] black & coloured people calling themselves Methodists
. Their piety withstood the disadvantages of lacking a chapel... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Hart Gilbert | |
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
... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Jenkins | She came from the middle class, from a family with a strong Methodist
tradition. In later life she became a believer in spiritualism. Beauman, Nicola. “Elizabeth Jenkins Obituary”. The Guardian. Jenkins, Sir Michael, and Elizabeth Jenkins. “Introduction”. The View from Downshire Hill: A Memoir, Michael Russell, pp. 9-12. 12 |
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 |
Textual Features | Jane Johnson | Her Clarissa (a neighbour who, says JJ
, is thus called because I take pleasure in the name) Whyman, Susan E. The Pen and the People: English Letter Writers 1660-1800. Oxford University Press. fig. 32 |
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. 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. Marshall, Dorothy. Fanny Kemble. Weidenfeld and Nicholson. 93 |
Cultural formation | May Kendall | Not much is known about her life. Leighton, Angela, and Margaret Reynolds, editors. Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology. Blackwell. 627 |
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