Dissenting Churches

MW 's parents were first-generation Londoners of Irish and English descent. They were not religious; Mary's passionate desire for something to believe in had to find its own direction, and she became a Rational Dissenter .

Although she was baptised in the Church ofEngland , SW was remarkable for her principled empathy and personal friendships with Dissenters . The Feminist Companion calls her an evangelical; Jack Simmons , in his...

ER came from a long-established English family settled in Liverpool, with a tradition of industrialism, philanthropy, high culture, Liberalism, and Dissent (either Quaker or Unitarian ).

AG was baptised in the Church of England at Portsmouth. Her parents were unlikely to have omitted this sacrament when she was little if they were Anglicans; it seems therefore that she probably converted...

CG remained a member of the Church of England (with Low Church or Evangelical sympathies) although her first husband was a Dissenter and she often felt in Wales that the Dissenters were doing a better...

EJ was born an Englishwoman, and presumably white. In maturity she was a member of the Church of England (with a low opinion both of the Russian Orthodox and of the Roman Catholic Churches )...

LA was a middle-classEnglishwoman. She must have understood that she was white at an early age, when she took up the cause of abolition of slavery. The most important cultural influence on her was her...

SA came from a presumably white, professional, English Liberal background; hers was one of the most prominent dissenting families in Norwich, known for their talent and energy and their many contributions to ....

She was a Christian believer of sentimental cast, who liked to see spiritual significance in details of her life. Brought up as an Anglican , she learned from a French Catholic servant to cherish and...

Brought up in the Church of England , she left the church in the Restoration period, with her stepfather and the rest of her family, to become a Dissenter . She remembered that she was...

JJ 's husband belonged to the conservative, not the evangelical wing of the Church of England . He was concerned at the influence of Dissenting beliefs in his congregation and in 1739, when George Whitefield

The Critical Review declined to comment on this book or to differentiate it from other religious novels. The Eclectic Review of November 1805, too, found similarities with other recent works, but dignified Interesting Conversations by...

The Johnsons' house in Olney in Buckinghamshire stood just outside the churchyard and close to the River Ouse. It had two wings, and sounds like a handsome house. The town itself (a centre for...

An occasional conformity bill was currently being debated, though it was not until 1711 that the practice of occasional conformity (whereby known Dissenters or Roman Catholics circumvent the ban on anyone except Anglicans holding public...

ALB anonymously published Civic Sermons to the People: Number I. She did not claim this title until 1811; doing so would have laid herself open to hostile comment on women preachers as well as...