John Wesley

John Wesley noted that he thought some of the elegies of MWDquite equal to Mr. Gray 's.

MDF celebrates the Association in a poem addressing it. Her book's full title is Unrighteous Abuse Detected and Chastised; or, A Vindication of Innocence and Integrity, Being an Answer to a Virulent Poem, Intituled, The...

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

In Gloucestershire Mary Pendarves found herself the neighbour of Sarah Kirkham (later Sarah Chapone) . They became close friends. Other members of their circle (besides Mary's sister Anne ) were Charles and especially John Wesley

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography notes both that MD received patronage from Bristol heiress Ann Lovell Gwatkin , and that Hannah More emphatically did not take to her, though their paths must repeatedly have...

Ross 's epilogue both praises FD 's work and seeks to recommend it by associating it with Darwin , John Wesley , and Voltaire .

Equiano was already a well-known figure in the abolitionist movement in Britain when his book appeared. He had issued Proposals for his subscription in November 1788 (the same month that George III fell ill, probably...

EF 's father, Peter Jaco , born in 1721, was a Cornishman, who early in life worked for his father in the pilchard fishery; ships owned by the family sailed in the Mediterranean. EF said...

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...

John Wesley responded by invoking what has later been called exceptionalism. He agreed that Mary Bosanquet had an Extraordinary Call, such as Saint Paul himself had recognised when he permitted women to speak at Corinth...

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...

Wesley himself said of her speaking, which he would not call preaching, that it was as a fire, conveying both light and heat to the hearts of all that hear her . . . Her...

John Wesley made one of his visits to Mary Bosanquet 's settlement at Cross Hall, which he called a pattern, and a general blessing to the country.

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.