John Wesley

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...

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.

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...

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 .

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...

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...

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...

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...