Unitarian Church

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation Bessie Rayner Parkes
BRP was born into an English, professional, well-known, liberal, Unitarian family.
Crawford, Anne, editor. The Europa Biographical Dictionary of British Women. Europa Publications, 1983.
Levine, Philippa. Feminist Lives in Victorian England: Private Roles and Public Commitment. Basil Blackwell, 1990.
16-17
Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press, 1985–2024, 2 vols.
Her mother was born in Pennsylvania, but had moved to England at the age of six.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan, 1941.
36
Cultural formation Ann Jebb
She was born into the English professional class, with connections in the nobility, and brought up in the Anglican church. As an adult she became, like her husband, an early Unitarian .
Meadley, George William. “Memoir of Mrs. Jebb”. The Monthly Repository, Vol.
7
, Oct. 1812, pp. 597 - 604, 661.
600
Cultural formation Bessie Rayner Parkes
BRP described herself as having been born in the very bosom of Puritan England, and fed daily upon the strict letter of the Scripture from aged lips which I regarded with profound reverence.
qtd. in
Leighton, Angela, and Margaret Reynolds, editors. Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology. Blackwell, 1995.
347
Her...
Cultural formation Ann Jebb
At this stage also the Jebbs changed their religion, and became Unitarian s. John Jebb, indeed, was one of those who were instrumental in opening the first Unitarian chapel, in London.
Meadley, George William. “Memoir of Mrs. Jebb”. The Monthly Repository, Vol.
7
, Oct. 1812, pp. 597 - 604, 661.
600
Cultural formation Lucie Duff Gordon
Presumably white, LDG grew up in a radical liberal, professional family of English descent. Both her parents were highly intellectual and prominent in political circles, and both were published authors. Her mother brought her up...
Cultural formation Anna Swanwick
She was born into a business family in that great and busy port, and brought up a Liberal and a Unitarian . In 1831 James Martineau became the Minister at the chapel in Paradise Street...
Cultural formation Amelia Opie
AO , who had left the Unitarian church in 1814 and taken the decision to convert to Quakerism, had her application to join the Society of Friends accepted.
Opie, Amelia. “Introduction”. Adeline Mowbray, edited by Shelley King and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, 1999, p. i - xxix.
xxxviii
Cultural formation Mary Anne Jevons
Like her parents, MAJ became a committed Unitarian who attended chapel regularly.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Cultural formation Lucie Duff Gordon
Despite her mother's Unitarian influence, LDG never entirely conformed to any denomination in her religious beliefs. Even at the age of fourteen she maintained her own views: my religion was that of the birds and...
Cultural formation Anna Swanwick
She remained a Unitarian all her life, but was open-minded enough to enjoy discussing Unitarianism on equal terms with Catholicism, Judaism, and other forms of religious worship
Bruce, Mary Louisa. Anna Swanwick, A Memoir and Recollections 1813-1899. T. F. Unwin, 1903.
155
with the eccentric Marquess of Bute (himself...
Cultural formation Sarah Flower Adams
Her devout Unitarian upbringing manifested itself in her writing, most explicitly in her hymns.
Stephenson, Harold William. The Author of Nearer, My God, to Thee (Sarah Flower Adams). Lindsey Press, 1922.
17-20
However, at the age of twenty she faced a spiritual crisis,
Commire, Anne, and Deborah Klezmer, editors. Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Yorkin Publications, 1999–2002, 17 vols.
expressed in a letter written to her minister...
Cultural formation Hesba Stretton
As an adult HS abandoned her mother 's strict Methodism and became an incurable sermon-taster. She favoured several denominations at the extreme of Protestantism. During the twelve-year period recorded in her Log Books only three...
Cultural formation Amelia Opie
She came from a cultured, financially comfortable middle-class but Unitarian English family. Her class status meant that even after she converted from Dissent to Quakerism ,
Opie, Amelia. “Introduction”. Adeline Mowbray, edited by Shelley King and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, 1999, p. i - xxix.
xxxviii
her attitudes remained worldly in comparison with those...
Cultural formation Alice Dixon Le Plongeon
Spiritualists like ADLP 's uncle Jacob Dixon believed that it was possible to contact the dead through mediums. Her many experiences with séances throughout her life convinced her that this was true, including one in...
Cultural formation T. S. Eliot
His family were New Englanders for generations back on both sides, and were rich in connections with men of letters. His paternal grandfather was a Unitarian and an academic.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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