John Wesley

During the 1820s Spence and Benger, then past their youth and each living on a pittance, were associated in running a salon on the model of those of the rich (like Lady Holland) or the...

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.

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...

This son became a lawyer but then, in 1748, underwent a religious conversion when (having come to scoff) he heard John Wesley preach and was deeply touched. In the 1750s he abandoned the law for...

From about this time she associated herself with John Wesley 's fairly new religious group called the Methodists (then part of the Church of England). Another influence on her religious thinking was Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon

About three years after this JCM invited John Wesley to stay with her family overnight, apparently hoping that serious conversation between him and her husband (who was gravely ill at the time) might persuade Martin...

Roger Lonsdale in 1990 followed Falconer Madan in supposing that her child-bearing and the influence of John Wesley and the Methodists amounted to sufficient explanation for her ceasing to write. Valerie Rumbold suggested in 1996...

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...

She was born a Dissenter and until her marriage attended the Presbyterian church in East Bond Street, Leicester. John Wesley visited the Coltman household during her youth. Later, during her widowhood, she became a Quaker .

She describes the effect of the first Methodists in Antigua, the conversion of her own maternal grandmother, the damage done by false pretended [white] Brethren of soaring profession and grov'ling practice—and then...

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...

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...

In this text of religious counsel, MBF lists her topics as sub-headings uncharacteristic of an actual letter. She translates her correspondent's approaching journey into spiritual terms: I see you as a ship just launching into...

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

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...