Chilcote, Paul Wesley. John Wesley and the Women Preachers of Early Methodism. Scarecrow Press.
318-20
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Literary responses | Mary Bosanquet Fletcher | 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... |
Textual Production | Mary Bosanquet Fletcher | Paul Wesley Chilcote
lists biblical texts on which she is known to have preached. Chilcote, Paul Wesley. John Wesley and the Women Preachers of Early Methodism. Scarecrow Press. 318-20 |
Literary responses | Mary Bosanquet Fletcher | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Bosanquet Fletcher | 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. Fletcher, Mary Bosanquet. The Life of Mrs. Mary Fletcher. Editor Moore, Henry, T. Mason and G. Lane. 77n |
Textual Production | Mary Bosanquet Fletcher | 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. English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/. |
Textual Production | Mary Bosanquet Fletcher | 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. John Wesley
visited Dodd in prison, and... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Mary Bosanquet Fletcher | The day after the funeral of her husband John Fletcher
, while her soul was as in the lion's den, Fletcher, Mary Bosanquet. The Life of Mrs. Mary Fletcher. Editor Moore, Henry, T. Mason and G. Lane. 155 Fletcher, Mary Bosanquet. The Life of Mrs. Mary Fletcher. Editor Moore, Henry, T. Mason and G. Lane. 156-65 |
Textual Production | Mary Bosanquet Fletcher | 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. Burge, Janet. Women Preachers in Community: Sarah Ryan, Sarah Crosby, Mary Bosanquet. Foundery Press. 19 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Bosanquet Fletcher | Crosby and Ryan, born in 1729 and 1724 respectively, were both remarkable women. Crosby at her death left three or four volumes of manuscript journals (300-400 packed pages each), intended by her for print and... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Eliza Fenwick | 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... |
Publishing | Olaudah Equiano | 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... |
Literary responses | Florence Dixie | |
Friends, Associates | Mary Deverell | 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... |
Textual Production | Mary Delany | Letters written by the future MD
as Aspasia to John Wesley
over this span of time are extant, and are printed among his works. Wesley, John. The Works of John Wesley. Clarendon; Oxford University Press. 25: 246-390 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Delany | 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 |
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