Matthew Henry

EB 's considerable learning was largely self-acquired, though she credited for her religious education both her stepfather Nathaniel Bradshaw and Dr Francis Fulwood . Her second husband described her as a Person of uncommon...

Matthew Henry (two years older than SS , and her only surviving brother) became a celebrated Presbyterian minister like his father, who was able to participate in his ordination in 1687. He was eminent both...

MM , at the palace of the Bishop of Chester and Lancaster, debated with Bishop Nicholas Stratford and other ecclesiastics on the legality, or rather the scripture authority for, compulsory payment of tithes to the...

Williams (a Nonconformist writer who had been a personal friend of SS 's grand-daughter Mrs Brett) said he found it hard to make his selection because her writing was so generally of superior excellence...

Among EB 's early readers was a Welshwoman of the next generation who in her turn became posthumously known as a diarist: Sarah Savage , 1664-1752, sister of that Matthew Henry whom both EB and...