John Wesley

Standard Name: Wesley, John

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Textual Production Robert Southey
It remained in the British school curriculum for decades and went through numerous editions into the twentieth century.
Wu, Duncan, editor. Romanticism: An Anthology. Blackwell.
560
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Southey's life of John Wesley was also highly regarded.
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Isabella Spence
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...
Textual Production Julia Wedgwood
JW published in 1866 an essay on the life of Wesley which, according to C. H. Herford writing in 1915, was regarded by Wesleyans . . . as the best biography of him not composed...
Family and Intimate relationships Susanna Wesley
SW bore the child who became the most famous of all her offspring: John Wesley , father of Methodism .
Wesley, Susanna. “Introduction”. Susanna Wesley: The Complete Writings, edited by Charles Wallace, Oxford University Press.
xiii
death Susanna Wesley
SW died at her son John 's Methodist headquarters of The Foundery in London.
The date has also been given as 23 July.
Wesley, Susanna. “Introduction”. Susanna Wesley: The Complete Writings, edited by Charles Wallace, Oxford University Press.
xiv
Textual Production Susanna Wesley
SW wrote the famous letter to her son John in which she outlined in detail her system of childrearing.
Wesley, Susanna. Susanna Wesley: The Complete Writings. Editor Wallace, Charles, Oxford University Press.
369ff
Publishing Susanna Wesley
For the first time some of SW 's writing was published: by her son John in the first volume of the Arminian Magazine.
Feminist Companion Archive.
Occupation Susanna Wesley
In her large family SW was an innovating educator, a pedagogic theorist with plenty of subjects on whom to test her theories in action. She taught her children as if running a small boarding school...
Textual Production Susanna Wesley
SW 's letters to her son John reached print in successive editions of his correspondence. Forty survive.
Textual Production Phillis Wheatley
The former Mary Whateley was now, by her second marriage, named Darwall, but her birth name had appeared on her earlier volume of poems. That volume includes this piece. Scholar Caroline Wigginton thinks that the...
Family and Intimate relationships Mehetabel Wright
MW 's brother John offended their father by alluding in a sermon preached at Wroot to the harshness meted out to Hetty.
Lonsdale, Roger, editor. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Oxford University Press.
110
Cultural formation Mehetabel Wright
MW wrote to her brother John about her search for God.
Lonsdale, Roger, editor. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Oxford University Press.
111
Wesley, John. The Works of John Wesley. Clarendon; Oxford University Press.
25: 112-13
Family and Intimate relationships Mehetabel Wright
MW 's famous younger brothers, John and Charles , seem to have had some trouble coping with the anomaly which she and her life represented for them, though John was said to be among her...
Cultural formation Mehetabel Wright
John Wesley arranged for her to convalesce at Bristol, and she developed a feeling of personal worthlessness which her relations identified as conviction of sin: a spiritually desirable state tending to conversion and salvation.
Lonsdale, Roger, editor. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Oxford University Press.
111
Textual Production Mehetabel Wright
Of MW 's letters few have survived. On 13 July 1744 she wrote with painful humility to her brother John , emphasising her own unprofitableness. I live in hope you won't forget my husband....

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