Burge, Janet. Women Preachers in Community: Sarah Ryan, Sarah Crosby, Mary Bosanquet. Foundery Press.
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Publishing | Mary Bosanquet Fletcher | Mary Bosanquet
dated a letter which was printed three years later as a pamphlet at both London and Bristol: Jesus, Altogether Lovely; or, A Letter to Some of the Single Women in the Methodist Society |
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 |
Textual Production | Mary Bosanquet Fletcher | MBF
gave her first actual sermon, that is a public address tied to a text in the Bible: this is the first known instance of a Methodist
woman preaching from a scriptural text. Burge, Janet. Women Preachers in Community: Sarah Ryan, Sarah Crosby, Mary Bosanquet. Foundery Press. 21 Stanley, Susie Cunningham. Holy Boldness. University of Tennessee Press. 56-7 |
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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