Methodist Church

Brought up in Italy and neglected by her parents, the eponymous heroine of Victoria causes consternation at the age of ten by announcing that she has converted to Catholicism . When her father demands whether...

Here CMC voices various complaints: of sufferings caused by the Dearness of Provisions, of the impossibility of women's earning a living, of the nation's wickedness, the decline of charity, the prevalence of atheists, and of...

Volume one begins with a discussion of religion in Wales, followed by a short biography of Davis's father, the Methodist preacher Dafydd Cadwaladyr . The book then moves into a first-person account of Davis

It includes her own narrative of her early life, and later journal entries. These record, introspectively, her spiritual state: Susie C. Stanley sees her central preoccupation as being with sanctification or holiness, a heart simplified...

The letters in Christian Sects (which is headed by three quotations, one of them from St John's Gospel) are said to have been exchanged between one of the editors of the Small Books, and...