Burge, Janet. Women Preachers in Community: Sarah Ryan, Sarah Crosby, Mary Bosanquet. Foundery Press.
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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... |
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 |
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 |
Cultural formation | Mary Bosanquet Fletcher | The child of wealthy English Anglican
family of Huguenot extraction, Mary Bosanquet received at about the age of four what she felt to be a proof that God answers prayer. At five she developed an... |
Cultural formation | Mary Bosanquet Fletcher | At eighteen, while her family moved on from the London season to the fashionable seaside resort of Scarborough, she got permission to stay on in London at the house of an uncle, where she overtaxed... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Bosanquet Fletcher | He was of Swiss origin, ten years her senior (born in 1729 at Nyon near Geneva), and a fellow-evangelical. In 1773 John Wesley
had approached him about taking on leadership of the Methodist movement... |
Cultural formation | Mary Bosanquet Fletcher | The new vicar (who did not live in the parish) respected her so highly that he allowed her to appoint a curate (the vicar's substitute) of her own choice, Mr Horne. She was personally sorry... |
politics | Mary Bosanquet Fletcher | MBF
seems to have been too much occupied with the religious life to have much thought to spare for earthly politics. At the beginning of December 1792, however, after a conversation with someone anxious about... |
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 |
Literary responses | Mary Bosanquet Fletcher | Three biographies appeared in the years following MBF
's death, and went through many re-issues. Local memory of her remained strong (as instanced by the Memorial Chapel at Leyton Wesleyan church), and so did international... |
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... |
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