Religion
Around 1850, having become disillusioned with some doctrines of the Church of Scotland, she began attending the Adelaide Unitarian Christian Church in Wakefield Street. She preached her first sermons there in 1878, and filled in for the pastor Dr John Crawford Woods during his absences 1884–90.
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