Unitarian Church

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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 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 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 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 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...
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Scott
John Taylor had been a classical tutor in the Daventry Academy and a minister in the English Presbyterian church. By the time of his marriage his search for the truth had led him to join...
Family and Intimate relationships Isabella Neil Harwood
INH 's father, Phillip Harwood , held many jobs. At the time of her birth he was a minister for a Unitarian parish. He later worked as a journalist and an editor.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Family and Intimate relationships Harriet Taylor
Harriet Hardy , aged nineteen, married John Taylor , a wealthy druggist, political radical, and active Unitarian eleven years her senior.
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.
Hayek, Friedrich Augustus von et al. John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor; Their Correspondence [i.e. Friendship] and Subsequent Marriage. University of Chicago Press, 1951.
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Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press, 1985–2025, 2 vols.
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Rose, Phyllis. Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages. Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.
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Family and Intimate relationships Harriet Taylor
HT met John Stuart Mill through her Unitarian minister, William Fox .
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.
Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press, 1985–2025, 2 vols.
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Family and Intimate relationships Eleanor Rathbone
ER 's father was the sixth William Rathbone in a Lancashire family which was Quaker , Unitarian , Liberal and philanthropic. For six generations this family had been the epitome of fair trading, plain speaking...
Family and Intimate relationships Harriet Taylor
Despite their efforts to avoid scandal, HT 's relationship with John Stuart Mill remained the subject of much gossip.
Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press, 1985–2025, 2 vols.
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Rumours travelled through London's Unitarian circles.
Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989.
Both Mill's father, James Mill , and his friend...
Family and Intimate relationships Margaret Fuller
Her father, Timothy Fuller , was also a teacher, then a lawyer and politician. A graduate of Harvard University , he served in both the Massachusetts senate and house of representatives, and he became a...

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