Unitarian Church

EC was brought up as a respectable tradesman's daughter. 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...

Sara received Anglican baptism sooner after her birth than her elder siblings had, which shows that her father 's Unitarian convictions were slackening. Though little is known about her own early religious beliefs, she was...

The agnostic FPC wrote her best-known hymn, beginning For life, for health I bless Thee; it was popular later in the century in Unitarian and non-denominational hymn books.

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...

She had a strong sense of her American identity, but in religion she was a seeker who found it hard to feel at home in any denomination. Rejecting the strict Calvinism in which she was...

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...

She belonged to the English middle class; her parents were members of the intellectual aristrocracy of English puritanism, as her father was a dissenting Unitarian minister. She was the first of six children, three daughters...

She was not baptised, since her father regarded the ceremony as a mere unmeaning shibboleth. Her radical and Unitarian family background encouraged her bent towards feminism and educational reform. She herself seems to have been...

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.

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...

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...

Her devout Unitarian upbringing manifested itself in her writing, most explicitly in her hymns. However, at the age of twenty she faced a spiritual crisis, expressed in a letter written to her minister...

In keeping with the Repository's Unitarian philosophy, SFA considered writing to be a means to social improvement, a way to express one's political and spiritual opinions.The Welsh Wanderer (July 1834), and An...