Fletcher, Mary Bosanquet. Jesus, Altogether Lovely. Robert Hawes.
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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 |
Textual Features | Anna Letitia Barbauld | |
Residence | Ethel Wilson | |
Publishing | Mary Bosanquet Fletcher | Many re-issues followed, extending to the year 1815. The original edition mentions that it was sold at the Foundry, Moorfields Fletcher, Mary Bosanquet. Jesus, Altogether Lovely. Robert Hawes. title-page |
Publishing | Mary Bosanquet Fletcher | 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 |
politics | Mary Bosanquet Fletcher | 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... |
Occupation | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | EPL
began to be active in the Working Girls' Club
of the MethodistWest London Mission
. Some sources, for instance the website of the Women's Library
, date her work with the club as... |
Occupation | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | The son of a vicar, he preached publicly and toyed with the idea of entering the Unitarian
ministry. He worked as a journalist for the Morning Post and lectured widely on both literature and philosophy. Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press. |
Occupation | Ethel Wilson | Until the age of thirty-one EW
continued to live with her grandmother Annie Malkin
and two elderly aunts. The household was severe for a young woman: on Sundays, Annie Malkin's strict Methodist
sensibilities led her... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Catherine Phillips | That same year CP
published Reasons why the People called Quakers cannot so fully unite with the Methodists, in their Missions to the Negroes in the West Indian Islands and Africa, as freely to... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Judith Cowper Madan | JCM
continued occasionally to address short poems to her husband. One survives which she wrote to her two daughters, and two written to a baby grandson (one before and one after his death). Madan, Falconer. The Madan Family. Oxford University Press. 270-2 |
Literary Setting | Elizabeth Charles | This one-volume novel was based on the lives of MethodistsGeorge Whitefield
and John Wesley
. Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press. Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press. |
Literary Setting | Arnold Bennett | Like AB
's early novels and two collections of short stories, these are set in the five towns of the Potteries. Clayhanger is set in the past: during the industrial revolution and the days... |
Literary responses | Ethel Wilson | Later critics concede that the work has value despite the apparent vapidity of the Aunt Topaz character. William H. New
has argued that her lack of depth helps illustrate her anachronistic function, which reveals the... |
Literary responses | Mary Bosanquet Fletcher | 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... |
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