Wigginton, Caroline. “Digitally Mapping the Transatlantic Lives and Texts of Black Women Authors of the Long Eighteenth Century”. 42nd ASECS Annual Meeting.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Bosanquet Fletcher | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Caroline Frances Cornwallis | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jane Williams | 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 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Hart Gilbert | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Charlotte McCarthy | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Charlotte McCarthy | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Martha Sherwood | 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... |
Textual Production | Phillis Wheatley | 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
. |
Textual Production | Mary Bosanquet Fletcher | 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, Chilcote, Paul Wesley. John Wesley and the Women Preachers of Early Methodism. Scarecrow Press. 299 |
Textual Production | Joanna Baillie | |
Textual Production | Mary Bosanquet Fletcher | 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. Burge, Janet. Women Preachers in Community: Sarah Ryan, Sarah Crosby, Mary Bosanquet. Foundery Press. 19 |
Textual Production | Mary Bosanquet Fletcher | 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. Burge, Janet. Women Preachers in Community: Sarah Ryan, Sarah Crosby, Mary Bosanquet. Foundery Press. 21 Stanley, Susie Cunningham. Holy Boldness. University of Tennessee Press. 56-7 |
Textual Production | Julia Wedgwood | 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
.) Wedgwood, Barbara, and Hensleigh Wedgwood. The Wedgwood Circle, 1730-1897: Four Generations of a Family and Their Friends. Studio Vista. 330 Wedgwood, Julia. The Moral Ideal. Trübner. |
Textual Features | Catherine Phillips | 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... |
Textual Features | Monica Furlong | MF
's contributors here, both men and women, look back at childhoods in which belief and observance were integral parts. They include those whose remembered experience was gleaned within different faiths: Anglican
, Roman Catholic |
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24 May 1738: John Wesley experienced conversion and the...
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24 May 1738
John Wesley
experienced conversion and the assurance of salvation, at the Aldersgate Street meeting-house in London.
April 1742: John Wesley's earliest list of members of...
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April 1742
John Wesley
's earliest list of members of the Foundery Society
(which met at The Foundery, Moorfields, East London) had forty-seven women to only nineteen men.
1745: Serious anti-Methodist riots occurred in...
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1745
Serious anti-Methodist
riots occurred in Exeter.
June 1749: Elizabeth Bennis (born Patton), a Limerick...
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June 1749
Elizabeth Bennis
(born Patton), a Limerick merchant's wife in her early twenties, converted to Methodism
.
Dyer, Serena. “Review”. Women’s History Magazine, No. 74, pp. 37-8.
6 July 1751: Charles Wesley, arriving to speak at a Methodist...
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6 July 1751
Charles Wesley
, arriving to speak at a Methodist
meeting, was met with violence and disruption beyond what he was used to encountering.
8 February 1761: In the first of two years' very great revival...
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8 February 1761
In the first of two years' very great revival among the [Methodist
] societies, Sarah Crosby
, on a visit to Derby and having the previous week conducted a prayer meeting of twenty-seven...
Fletcher, Mary Bosanquet. The Life of Mrs. Mary Fletcher. Editor Moore, Henry, T. Mason and G. Lane.
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26 March 1768: Lord Baltimore (Frederick, the sixth baron,...
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26 March 1768
Lord Baltimore (Frederick, the sixth baron
, who was known for his promiscuity and was said to admire the Islamic system of harems) was acquitted (with two female accessories) of raping a Methodist
or Independent
1769: Hannah Ballimg: move in unlikely event of...
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1769
30 September 1770: Charismatic evangelist George Whitefield...
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30 September 1770
1774: John Wesley published his Thoughts upon Slavery....
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1774
John Wesley
published his Thoughts upon Slavery. In condemning the institution, he made ending the slave trade and emancipating existent slaves official policies of the Methodist
movement.
January 1778: John Wesley and others began publishing the...
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January 1778
John Wesley
and others began publishing the Arminian Magazine: consisting of extracts and original translations on universal redemptions.
1784: John Wesley broke finally with the Church...
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1784
John Wesley
broke finally with the Church of England
, though still vacillating as to whether to espouse full Evangelicism
; in 1787 his Methodist
chapels were registered as Dissenting chapels.
1787: John Wesley, debating how far to take the...
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1787
John Wesley
, debating how far to take the Methodists
in the direction of Evangelicism
, talked over the issue by letter with John Newton
, ex-slave-captain and leading Evangelical.
After 2 March 1791: Following the death of John Wesley, the Methodists...
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After 2 March 1791
Following the death of John Wesley
, the Methodists
extended the circuit system throughout Britain as an alternative to the parish system used by the Established Church
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