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...

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

The child of wealthy English Anglican family of Huguenot extraction, Mary Bosanquet received at about the age of four what she felt to be a proof that God answers prayer. At five she developed an...

At eighteen, while her family moved on from the London season to the fashionable seaside resort of Scarborough, she got permission to stay on in London at the house of an uncle, where she overtaxed...

He was of Swiss origin, ten years her senior (born in 1729 at Nyon near Geneva), and a fellow-evangelical. In 1773 John Wesley had approached him about taking on leadership of the Methodist movement...

The new vicar (who did not live in the parish) respected her so highly that he allowed her to appoint a curate (the vicar's substitute) of her own choice, Mr Horne. She was personally sorry...

MBF seems to have been too much occupied with the religious life to have much thought to spare for earthly politics. At the beginning of December 1792, however, after a conversation with someone anxious about...

Many re-issues followed, extending to the year 1815. The original edition mentions that it was sold at the Foundry, Moorfields (which was Methodism 's continuing centre in London). Others were sold at the New...

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 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.

Three biographies appeared in the years following MBF 's death, and went through many re-issues. Local memory of her remained strong (as instanced by the Memorial Chapel at Leyton Wesleyan church), and so did international...

Mary Bosanquet dated a letter which was printed three years later as a pamphlet at both London and Bristol: Jesus, Altogether Lovely; or, A Letter to Some of the Single Women in the Methodist Society

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.

Brought up in all the fervour of early Methodism (to which each of her parents had devoted their life before she was born), EF seems to have retained no trace of it after she was...