The family's narrow social life revolved around the Methodist society.
Taylor, Ina. Victorian Sisters. Adler and Adler.
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Middlemas, Keith, and John Barnes. Baldwin: A Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicholson.
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Baldwin's father, a Wesleyan minister, was more liberal in his religious influence than her mother. He hoped Louisa would grow up to be...
Family and Intimate relationships
Louisa Baldwin
The Reverend George Browne Macdonald
, Louisa's father, was a well-known Methodist preacher, whose own father, James Macdonald
, had been ordained by John Wesley
himself.
Middlemas, Keith, and John Barnes. Baldwin: A Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicholson.
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Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press.