Dwight Lyman Moody

Coming from a professional but not wealthy rank among the middle classes, she seems to have had to contribute to the family income, by teaching and writing, even before her parents' deaths. A student at...

Her family had been Roman Catholic back in 1605, at the height of Catholic unrest and persecution of Catholics in England.EL , however, came from a liberal Unitarian background: her father (to whom...

In November 1874 a great change came in Marie's life when her mother engaged for her children an English nurse, Sarah Mew , a Wesleyan of a rigid type, though she had leanings towards Methodism

CC 's father, George Gray Macfarlane , had worked as a young man in the Caribbean and the USA. He exported textiles to the West Indies and was president and a founder of the YMCA

Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton , was quoted as calling Kittythe best novel I have ever read, and as demanding about the character Polly Cornford, Where on earth . . . did you...

Another poem in this collection, The Night Cometh, became used, without ALW 's permission, as the well-known hymn Work, for the Night is Coming. (Both titles come from words attributed to Jesus in...