Fletcher, Mary Bosanquet. Jesus, Altogether Lovely. Robert Hawes.
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Publishing | Mary Bosanquet Fletcher | Many re-issues followed, extending to the year 1815. The original edition mentions that it was sold at the Foundry, Moorfields Fletcher, Mary Bosanquet. Jesus, Altogether Lovely. Robert Hawes. title-page |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Bosanquet Fletcher | It includes her own narrative of her early life, and later journal entries. These record, introspectively, her spiritual state: Susie C. Stanley
sees her central preoccupation as being with sanctification or holiness, a heart simplified... |
Textual Production | Mary Bosanquet Fletcher | The original letter is not located; a copy in a letter-book of Sarah Crosby
survives at Duke University
. The letter was in print by 1820, Chilcote, Paul Wesley. John Wesley and the Women Preachers of Early Methodism. Scarecrow Press. 299 |
Textual Features | Monica Furlong | MF
's contributors here, both men and women, look back at childhoods in which belief and observance were integral parts. They include those whose remembered experience was gleaned within different faiths: Anglican
, Roman Catholic |
Cultural formation | Anne Hart Gilbert | The mother and grandmother of Anne and her sister Elizabeth were Methodists, and the girls themselves were baptised Methodists
in 1786, the year after their mother's death, during a missionary visit to Antigua. After their... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Hart Gilbert | She had met him while she was a schoolteacher. He was a widower (only five years her senior) of an English family long settled in the Caribbean, who worked both as a baker and as... |
Cultural formation | Anne Hart Gilbert | McDonald chose the Gilbert household as the base from which to pursue his mission, until he died of a violent fever on 4 December 1798. His death was a solemn yet, as their religion decreed... |
Cultural formation | Anne Hart Gilbert | In this dockyard community AHG
, to her great but pleasant surprise, found a small society of [twenty-eight] black & coloured people calling themselves Methodists
. Their piety withstood the disadvantages of lacking a chapel... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Hart Gilbert | |
Characters | Sarah Green | After this tirade the novel is more fun than one might anticipate. The title-page quotes Sir John Vanbrugh
. The story opens with SG
's gentleman hero, Percival Ellingford, a recent convert to Methodism
... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Jenkins | She came from the middle class, from a family with a strong Methodist
tradition. In later life she became a believer in spiritualism. “Elizabeth Jenkins”. The Telegraph. Beauman, Nicola. “Elizabeth Jenkins Obituary”. The Guardian. Jenkins, Sir Michael, and Elizabeth Jenkins. “Introduction”. The View from Downshire Hill: A Memoir, Michael Russell, pp. 9-12. 12 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Jenkins | His father, Ebenezer Jenkins
, was a Methodist
missionary in India during the 1840s. James Heald Jenkins was his only son. Jenkins, Elizabeth. The View from Downshire Hill. Michael Johnson. 13 |
Textual Features | Jane Johnson | Her Clarissa (a neighbour who, says JJ
, is thus called because I take pleasure in the name) Whyman, Susan E. The Pen and the People: English Letter Writers 1660-1800. Oxford University Press. fig. 32 |
Friends, Associates | Fanny Kemble | Dr William Ellery Channing
, an American Unitarian
and friend of Lucy Aikin
, met and befriended FK
. His views came to influence hers. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. Marshall, Dorothy. Fanny Kemble. Weidenfeld and Nicholson. 93 |
Cultural formation | May Kendall | Not much is known about her life. Leighton, Angela, and Margaret Reynolds, editors. Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology. Blackwell. 627 |
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