Fletcher, Mary Bosanquet. Jesus, Altogether Lovely. Robert Hawes, 1766.
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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, 1766. title-page |
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 |
Residence | Ethel Wilson | |
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, 2009. fig. 32 |
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 |
Textual Features | Catherine Phillips | She wrote on the mining industry in Cornwall, on grain prices, on the Methodists
and their missionary work with black people in Africa and the Caribbean, on relations between the classes, and on... |
Textual Features | Anna Letitia Barbauld | |
Textual Production | Phillis Wheatley | The MethodistArminian Magazine carried the poem which was until recently regarded as PW
's last, An Elegy on Leaving —. It seem, though, that this was not by Wheatley but by Mary Whateley Darwall
. Wigginton, Caroline. “Digitally Mapping the Transatlantic Lives and Texts of Black Women Authors of the Long Eighteenth Century”. 42nd ASECS Annual Meeting, 19 Mar. 2011. |
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, 1991. 299 |
Textual Production | Julia Wedgwood | JW
published The Moral Ideal: A Historic Study, a comparative account of world religions. (She had already, eighteen years before, published a study of Methodism
.) Wedgwood, Barbara, and Hensleigh Wedgwood. The Wedgwood Circle, 1730-1897: Four Generations of a Family and Their Friends. Studio Vista, 1980. 330 Wedgwood, Julia. The Moral Ideal. Trübner, 1888. |
Textual Production | Joanna Baillie | |
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, 1996. 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, 1996. 21 Stanley, Susie Cunningham. Holy Boldness. University of Tennessee Press, 2002. 56-7 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jane Williams | Volume one begins with a discussion of religion in Wales, followed by a short biography of Davis's father, the Methodist
preacher Dafydd Cadwaladyr
. The book then moves into a first-person account of Davis |
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... |
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