John Wesley

The Science of Life uses as its examples St Ignatius , John Wesley , and Tolstoy . In Dante and Botticelli she argues from her two Italian examples that the best possible training for...

Letters written by the future MD as Aspasia to John Wesley over this span of time are extant, and are printed among his works.

John A. Hargreaves in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography relates that MBF recorded the details of her medical practice and of what she prescribed, in commonplace-books which she kept, and in her copy of...

SW wrote the famous letter to her son John in which she outlined in detail her system of childrearing.

Paul Wesley Chilcote lists biblical texts on which she is known to have preached. She wrote that on this occasion [t]he Lord gave me freedom of speech, in the same way that speech was...

SW 's letters to her son John reached print in successive editions of his correspondence. Forty survive.

The former Mary Whateley was now, by her second marriage, named Darwall, but her birth name had appeared on her earlier volume of poems. That volume includes this piece. Scholar Caroline Wigginton thinks that the...

Mary Bosanquet (later Fletcher) wrote an actual letter which reached print the same year as A Letter to the Rev. Mr. John Wesley, ascribed to a Gentlewoman but signed with her initials.

Mary Bosanquet (later Fletcher) wrote almost weekly to the ex-fashionable preacher Dr William Dodd (in prison for forgery) until he was hanged, out of concern for his soul.

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.

It remained in the British school curriculum for decades and went through numerous editions into the twentieth century. Southey's life of John Wesley was also highly regarded.

Of MW 's letters few have survived. On 13 July 1744 she wrote with painful humility to her brother John , emphasising her own unprofitableness. I live in hope you won't forget my husband....

Both Mary Pendarves (later Mary Delany) and John Wesley had read this remarkable work in manuscript the previous year. (Wesley had been reading her writing with enjoyment since at least April 1733.) Both Pendarves

JW published in 1866 an essay on the life of Wesley which, according to C. H. Herford writing in 1915, was regarded by Wesleyans . . . as the best biography of him not composed...

Apart from the testimonies she wrote about her husband and sent to John Wesley and her Swiss brother-in-law, MBF wrote an account of [the] devoted life and happy death of her adopted daughter Sarah Lawrence