Unitarian Church

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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Caroline Frances Cornwallis
The letters in Christian Sects (which is headed by three quotations, one of them from St John's Gospel) are said to have been exchanged between one of the editors of the Small Books, and...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Edna Lyall
The Burges children's father, though he is against Pusey ism, is broad-minded
Lyall, Edna. The Burges Letters: A Record of Child Life in the Sixties. Longmans, Green, and Co.
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about Puseyites as he is in other respects: visitors to their house include not only Anglicans but Moravians , a Baptist ...
Textual Production Sarah Wentworth Morton
SWM also pioneered the sonnet in America and wrote hymns for several different denominations. Her tolerance for different beliefs and movements appears in Reanimation, a Hymn for the Humane Society (an organization dedicated to saving...
Textual Production Margaret Laurence
She wrote the last-published first: a Christmas Nativity story written in 1960, for her children's Sunday School at the Unitarian Church in Vancouver, where earnest sceptics wanted the involvement of angels downplayed. She then...
Textual Features Sarah Flower Adams
In keeping with the Repository's Unitarian philosophy, SFA considered writing to be a means to social improvement,
Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge.
a way to express one's political and spiritual opinions.
Armstrong, Isobel et al., editors. Nineteenth-Century Women Poets. Clarendon Press.
The Welsh Wanderer (July 1834), and An...
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
Publishing Frances Power Cobbe
FPC was the only woman to write regularly for the progressive UnitarianTheological Review, with which she published two dozen essays between 1864 and 1877 (many of them collected in Hopes of the Human...
Publishing Anna Letitia Barbauld
She wrote for other periodicals as well. From 1803 she reviewed poetry and belles lettres for the Annual Review, edited by her nephew Arthur Aikin , though few of her contributions are identified. For...
Author summary Amelia Opie
AO , who was publishing at the end of the eighteenth century and during the earlier nineteenth century, is best known as a novelist, but was also a dramatist, poet, and short-story writer. The opinions...
politics Dorothy Richardson
With varying degrees of commitment (usually minor), Richardson immersed herself in various philosophical movements of the period. She did much of her reading at the British Museum 's Reading Room, which she revered, but elsewhere...
politics Laura Ormiston Chant
During one of her trans-Atlantic tours, in Spring 1893, LOC addressed the Women's Era Club , an African-American women's club located in Boston, Massachusetts, that promoted both racial equality and women's suffrage. There Chant...
Occupation Antoinette Brown Blackwell
ABB continued writing philosophy and participating in the suffrage movement well into her late eighties. By this time she was recognized by many as an accomplished philosophical writer, suffragist, and a preacher in the Congregational...
Literary responses George Eliot
The translator's work was warmly praised by Charles Wicksteed in the Prospective Review (a vehicle for Unitarian opinion).
Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton.
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Friends, Associates Harriet Taylor
HT 's husband introduced her to the UnitarianMonthly Repository circle which included Harriet Martineau , Eliza and Sarah Flower , and the Rev. William Fox .
Rose, Phyllis. Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages. Alfred A. Knopf.
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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.
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/.

Timeline

1749: David Hartley published Observations on Man,...

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1749

David Hartley published Observations on Man, his Frame, his Duties, and his Expectations, which established a materialist theory of the human mind.

1771: Political thinker Richard Price (who was...

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1771

Political thinker Richard Price (who was later a Unitarian ) published probably the best-known attack on enclosures, Observations on Reversionary Payments, which went through six editions.

17 April 1774: The inaugural service was held at the first...

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17 April 1774

The inaugural service was held at the first Unitarian chapel, in Essex Street, London.

April 1792: Mobs attacked houses and mills owned by Unitarians...

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April 1792

Mobs attacked houses and mills owned by Unitarians in Nottingham; two months later, meeting-houses in Manchester were sacked, and, in November, mills in Belper.

11 May 1792: Edmund Burke in his Speech on the Petition...

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11 May 1792

Edmund Burke in his Speech on the Petition of the Unitarians argued that Unitarians, who denied the doctrine of the Trinity, could not claim toleration like Catholics , Presbyterian s, Quakers , and others.

1796: Joseph Priestley published at Philadelphia...

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1796

Joseph Priestley published at PhiladelphiaUnitarianism Explained and Defended, in a Discourse Delivered in the Church of the Universalists, at Philadelphia.

1813: An Act of Parliament conferred legal status...

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1813

An Act of Parliament conferred legal status on the Unitarians by absolving them of the official charge of blasphemy.

October 1891: The Labour Church, an organization professing...

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October 1891

The Labour Church , an organization professing Christian Socialism, held its first service, in Manchester. Its founder, John Trevor , had been a Unitarian minister.

29 September 1904: Gertrude von Petzold, a German Unitarian,...

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29 September 1904

Gertrude von Petzold , a German Unitarian , became the first woman to act as a minister in England since before the Victorian age.

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