Unitarian Church

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation Mary Anne Jevons
Like her parents, MAJ became a committed Unitarian who attended chapel regularly.
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, 1990.
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Cultural formation Lucie Duff Gordon
Despite her mother's Unitarian influence, LDG never entirely conformed to any denomination in her religious beliefs. Even at the age of fourteen she maintained her own views: my religion was that of the birds and...
Cultural formation Anna Swanwick
She remained a Unitarian all her life, but was open-minded enough to enjoy discussing Unitarianism on equal terms with Catholicism, Judaism, and other forms of religious worship
Bruce, Mary Louisa. Anna Swanwick, A Memoir and Recollections 1813-1899. T. F. Unwin, 1903.
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with the eccentric Marquess of Bute (himself...
Cultural formation Sarah Flower Adams
Her devout Unitarian upbringing manifested itself in her writing, most explicitly in her hymns.
Stephenson, Harold William. The Author of Nearer, My God, to Thee (Sarah Flower Adams). Lindsey Press, 1922.
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However, at the age of twenty she faced a spiritual crisis,
Commire, Anne, and Deborah Klezmer, editors. Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Yorkin Publications, 1999–2002, 17 vols.
expressed in a letter written to her minister...
Cultural formation Hesba Stretton
As an adult HS abandoned her mother 's strict Methodism and became an incurable sermon-taster. She favoured several denominations at the extreme of Protestantism. During the twelve-year period recorded in her Log Books only three...
Cultural formation Amelia Opie
She came from a cultured, financially comfortable middle-class but Unitarian English family. Her class status meant that even after she converted from Dissent to Quakerism ,
Opie, Amelia. “Introduction”. Adeline Mowbray, edited by Shelley King and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, 1999, p. i - xxix.
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her attitudes remained worldly in comparison with those...
Cultural formation Alice Dixon Le Plongeon
Spiritualists like ADLP 's uncle Jacob Dixon believed that it was possible to contact the dead through mediums. Her many experiences with séances throughout her life convinced her that this was true, including one in...
Cultural formation T. S. Eliot
His family were New Englanders for generations back on both sides, and were rich in connections with men of letters. His paternal grandfather was a Unitarian and an academic.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Cultural formation Lucy Toulmin Smith
LTS 's family had a long history of involvement in the UnitarianChurch . Her great-great-grandfather, Joshua Toulmin , was a significant figure in the formation of the English Unitarian Church as a distinct denomination, and...
Cultural formation Eva Gore-Booth
EGB came from a Protestant family but broke with that tradition in favour of many other spiritual pursuits. Biographer Gifford Lewis writes: even before her teens she had become, in Christian terms, godless and her...
Cultural formation Edna Lyall
Her family had been Roman Catholic back in 1605, at the height of Catholic unrest and persecution of Catholics in England.
Escreet, J. M. The Life of Edna Lyall. Longmans, Green and Co., 1904.
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EL , however, came from a liberal Unitarian background: her father (to whom...
Cultural formation Mary Sewell
Both of MS 's parents were members of the Society of Friends , as were her husband's family. She remained a Friend, or Quaker, until 1835, when she joined the Church of England after flirting...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Ham
EH lived to the age of about thirty without questioning her religion, or those parts of the Bible which she could understand. Meeting with earnest Evangelicals would leave her at a loss what to think...
Cultural formation Antoinette Brown Blackwell
In 1878 she returned to organized religion, joining a Unitarian Fellowship. Elizabeth Cazden believes that ABB was drawn to the Unitarian church because it envisioned a benevolent God and defended human freedom and moral reasoning.
Cazden, Elizabeth. Antoinette Brown Blackwell. Feminist Press, 1983.
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Cultural formation Margaret Fuller
MF 's Unitarian ism introduced her to a vibrant intellectual community in Cambridge, and at a fairly young age she became a central figure in a social circle that included George Ripley , William Henry Channing

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