Unitarian Church

The agnostic FPC wrote her best-known hymn, beginning For life, for health I bless Thee; it was popular later in the century in Unitarian and non-denominational hymn books.

She had a strong sense of her American identity, but in religion she was a seeker who found it hard to feel at home in any denomination. Rejecting the strict Calvinism in which she was...

She was deeply familiar with Victorian religious crisis. Brought up in her mother's faith, Huguenot-descended protestantism, while living through her father's successive shifts of belief and witnessing their negative impact on his family and his...

She was born into the English urban middle class, but very little is known about her early life and education. It seems most likely that she came from white parents and that Joseph Parkes in...

Her forebears on both sides were Unitarian but, at her mother's urging, the family became Anglican to match their social class. Despite the public conversion, William Nightingale held strongly to his Unitarian background and was...

ER came from a long-established English family settled in Liverpool, with a tradition of industrialism, philanthropy, high culture, Liberalism, and Dissent (either Quaker or Unitarian ).

MH 's opinions on marriage were similar to those of other radicals and feminists in the Unitarian circles in which she travelled, and in which alternative unions were common. She argued that the...

MH was a middle-class Englishwoman, born into a Rational Dissenting faith (ancestor of later Unitarianism ) which she found highly compatible with feminist ideas. As a young woman she flirted with deism. In Emma...

Sara received Anglican baptism sooner after her birth than her elder siblings had, which shows that her father 's Unitarian convictions were slackening. Though little is known about her own early religious beliefs, she was...

Her parents were active Unitarians , whose social circle included many London intellectuals and dissenters.

Her Lancashire forebears had been, as she imagined them, Puritans, Nonjurors, Nonconformists, Dissenters. In recent generations they were Unitarian s. Her parents belonged to the London upper middle class, and lived a life of...

He came from an English family with Irish connections, of Dissenting or Unitarian faith.

EC was brought up as a respectable tradesman's daughter. Commentators are divided on whether this made her middle- or working-class, but her father had enough wealth to retire from active business while she was...

BRP , who had long ceased to be a Unitarian and become an agnostic, experienced a gradual change in religious beliefs, which ended in her conversion to Roman Catholicism .

CH grew up in a Dissenting family which suffered for its beliefs. She had a number of Quaker friends, to whom she unembarrassedly used thou and thee. She wrote that she almost became a...