Methodist Church

After a short, modest statement of unwillingness, AHG sets out to detail the rise, progress and present state of Methodism in the West Indies, a subject which also involves her detailing the progress of...

The poems include reworkings of pastoral, occasional poems (one of them inscribed in a volume belonging to a friend), and comment on public affairs. The opening three, addressed to Chloe, are conventional in tone...

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...

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...

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...

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

Mary Bosanquet (later Fletcher) wrote to John Wesley on the question of just how close Methodist women were to be permitted to come to actually preaching.

MBF gave her first actual sermon, that is a public address tied to a text in the Bible: this is the first known instance of a Methodist woman preaching from a scriptural text.

JW published The Moral Ideal: A Historic Study, a comparative account of world religions. (She had already, eighteen years before, published a study of Methodism .)

The MethodistArminian Magazine carried the poem which was until recently regarded as PW 's last, An Elegy on Leaving —. It seem, though, that this was not by Wheatley but by Mary Whateley Darwall .

The original letter is not located; a copy in a letter-book of Sarah Crosby survives at Duke University . The letter was in print by 1820, and therefore served to influence later Methodist attitudes.

Later in her life, JB produced works with a decidedly Unitarian bent. By June 1826 she published The Martyr, A Drama, and in early 1831 A View of the General Tenour of the New...

Her Clarissa (a neighbour who, says JJ , is thus called because I take pleasure in the name)is comfortably married to a gentleman with sufficient money, and devotes her leisure to...

She wrote on the mining industry in Cornwall, on grain prices, on the Methodists and their missionary work with black people in Africa and the Caribbean, on relations between the classes, and on...