John Wesley

The family's narrow social life revolved around the Methodist society. Baldwin's father, a Wesleyan minister, was more liberal in his religious influence than her mother. He hoped Louisa would grow up to be...

The Reverend George Browne Macdonald , Louisa's father, was a well-known Methodist preacher, whose own father, James Macdonald , had been ordained by John Wesley himself.

Having already praised many contemporary women writers in print, EOB was now able to meet them. The move to London was accomplished principally through the zealous friendship of Miss Sarah Wesley , who had already...

After her marriage she met John Wesley when he visited Winchester, and he wrote her a letter advising her (in a kindly tone) to remain tolerant in face of her father-in-law's disapproval, and to try...

The couple (Jane aged thirty-one and Thomas about a decade younger)) married without the consent of Thomas Winscom's father, Jasper (an active Methodist and a correspondent of John Wesley ). Jasper, although he judged JC

John Wesley 's editor calls his correspondence with Sarah Kirkham their incipient love affair, but adds that this was broken off before she was married.

In 1731 John Wesley expressed his admiration for SC 's courage under the sharpest pain an embodied spirit can know, that of childbirth. What he chiefly admired, however, was her remark that if her strength...

SC 's friendship with John Wesley continued after her marriage, and included Wesley's brother Charles , Mary Pendarves (later Delany) , and Mary's sister Anne Granville , who stayed at her house for a week...

Some of SC 's letters remain at Gloucestershire Record Office , in the Bodleian Library , and among Richardson's correspondence in the Victoria and Albert Museum . Her surviving letters to John Wesley are printed...

SC used letters to introduce John Wesley to the works of Mary Astell —just as, later, she used letters to raise the consciousness of George Ballard .

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

John and Charles Wesley , walking across the country to visit their mother and the rest of their family at Epworth, stopped both going and coming to visit SC at Stanton.

As a country clergyman's daughter SC was an Anglican of the English professional class. Her correspondence with John Wesley bears witness to the strength and immediacy of her Christian faith, but she did not agree...

Sarah met John Wesley when he visited Mary's brother Robert (a friend from university) in April 1725. She became and remained a friend of John and his brother Charles , though she did not share...

This one-volume novel was based on the lives of MethodistsGeorge Whitefield and John Wesley . It advocates diary-keeping as a means by which women can maintain serenity in the midst of domestic disharmony.