Methodist Church

Many re-issues followed, extending to the year 1815. The original edition mentions that it was sold at the Foundry, Moorfields (which was Methodism 's continuing centre in London). Others were sold at the New...

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

EW lived with her grandmother and two unmarried aunts, all with deep Wesleyan faith, for twenty-one years until Annie Malkin's death in 1919. EW later regarded her Methodist upbringing as restricted and blinkered, yet at...

Her Clarissa (a neighbour who, says JJ , is thus called because I take pleasure in the name)is comfortably married to a gentleman with sufficient money, and devotes her leisure to...

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...

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

The introductory essay named in the title is a history and an analysis of (in Burke 's phrase a philosophical enquiry into) Dissent in Britain. Its topics include the loss of status for ministers who...

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 .)

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 .

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, and therefore served to influence later Methodist attitudes.

Later in her life, JB produced works with a decidedly Unitarian bent. By June 1826 she published The Martyr, A Drama, and in early 1831 A View of the General Tenour of the New...

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.

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.

Brought up in Italy and neglected by her parents, the eponymous heroine of Victoria causes consternation at the age of ten by announcing that she has converted to Catholicism . When her father demands whether...

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...