Unitarian Church

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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.
Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press.
208
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...
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.
208
Rumours travelled through London's Unitarian circles.
Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge.
Both Mill's father, James Mill , and his friend...
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 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...
Cultural formation Matilda Hays
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...
Cultural formation Florence Nightingale
Her forebears on both sides were Unitarian but, at her mother's urging, the family became Anglican to match their social class. Despite the public conversion, William Nightingale held strongly to his Unitarian background and was...
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 Eliza Cook
EC was brought up as a respectable tradesman's daughter.
Miles, Alfred H., editor. The Poets and the Poetry of the Century. Hutchinson.
271
Commentators are divided on whether this made her middle- or working-class, but her father had enough wealth to retire from active business while she was...
Cultural formation Matilda Hays
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.
Gleadle, Kathryn. The Early Feminists. Macmillan.
42, 112-13
She argued that the...
Cultural formation Amelia Opie
AO , who had left the Unitarian church in 1814 and taken the decision to convert to Quakerism, had her application to join the Society of Friends accepted.
Opie, Amelia. “Introduction”. Adeline Mowbray, edited by Shelley King and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, p. i - xxix.
xxxviii
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 Mary Hays
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.
Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon.
80-2
In Emma...
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...

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