Congregational Church

Despite Joseph Brown's former studies in theology and hopes of becoming a minister, the Brown family did not actively practise religion until Antoinette was about seven. They then began attending Henrietta's liberal Congregational Church after...

Although ABB and Lucy Stone devoted their lives to working for similar ends, they frequently disagreed with each other. While Blackwell was committed to the ideology and institutions of organized Christianity, Stone, the more...

Although ABB 's religious upbringing had been more liberal than orthodox, she was ordained and made the minister of an orthodox Congregational Church in South Butler.

She was born to a professional, presumably white, English family. They seem to have been initially Anglican, but after they moved to London when Laura was young, her father's disapproval of the high-church services at...

Baptised a Congregationalist , that is in contemporary terms a Dissenter , MMC later became a practising Anglican . She was deeply religious.

Sarah Stickney was formally admitted as a member of the Congregational Church.

Her father was a tenant farmer in the East Riding, and SSE later celebrated agricultural labour in one of her poems. She was brought up as a Quaker , but later rejected the Society...

Katharine Conway, later KBG , was born to an English, white, minister's family, who considering their middle-class status were relatively poor. She was the product of her parents' views on equality of educational opportunities for...

Religion, too, became important to PHJ in her youth. Though she notes a streak of emotional Calvinism in herself, she loved the music and ritual of the Broad Church Anglican services to which her...

JWM was born to probably white parents. Her mother was of American descent and her father belonged to an old Portsmouth family. He ran a very strict middle-class Congregationalist household, against which Jessie (an agnostic...

Susanna Strickland, later SM , joined a Congregationalist church, marking a significant step in her spiritual development.

Religion was a source of conflict in SM 's personal life and in her husband's professional life. An early relationship with a Nonconformist distanced SM from the high Anglican tradition embraced by her parents and...

Edith Mary Croucher , aged twenty-one, was married at the Congregationalist church at Bromley in Kent to Thomas William Moore , an architect and surveyor.

EPL grew up in a large, upper-middle-class, Liberal family that taught her to disregard class distinction. Her father came from a long line of Cornish farmers who were devoted Methodist s. As a young...

Born into a wealthy upper-class American family, she was for several years a member of Dr Mason's Congregationalist Church . She abandoned this denomination, however, in 1821 when she followed her dying father's example, and...