Unitarian Church

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...

The English Martineaus came from French Huguenot stock: the first member of the family (according to HM herself) had settled in Norwich in 1688. She made a point, in a correction to the information provided...

AM was born into a family of the English gentry—though her father was half-Scots and originated from a much lower class. He and his family had been only two years at Talke at the time...

She was born into a well-established English family; Charlotte Yonge says her father belonged to the higher professional class: an uncle, cousin, and brother all distinguished themselves in legal fields. It is not...

Her family had been Roman Catholic back in 1605, at the height of Catholic unrest and persecution of Catholics in England.EL , however, came from a liberal Unitarian background: her father (to whom...

The Burges children's father, though he is against Pusey ism, is broad-minded about Puseyites as he is in other respects: visitors to their house include not only Anglicans but Moravians , a Baptist ...

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...

Like her parents, MAJ became a committed Unitarian who attended chapel regularly.

She was born into the English professional class, with connections in the nobility, and brought up in the Anglican church. As an adult she became, like her husband, an early Unitarian .

At this stage also the Jebbs changed their religion, and became Unitarian s. John Jebb, indeed, was one of those who were instrumental in opening the first Unitarian chapel, in London.

CH grew up in a Dissenting family which suffered for its beliefs. She had a number of Quaker friends, to whom she unembarrassedly used thou and thee. She wrote that she almost became a...

He came from an English family with Irish connections, of Dissenting or Unitarian faith.

She was born into the English urban middle class, but very little is known about her early life and education. It seems most likely that she came from white parents and that Joseph Parkes in...

MH 's opinions on marriage were similar to those of other radicals and feminists in the Unitarian circles in which she travelled, and in which alternative unions were common. She argued that the...

MH was a middle-class Englishwoman, born into a Rational Dissenting faith (ancestor of later Unitarianism ) which she found highly compatible with feminist ideas. As a young woman she flirted with deism. In Emma...