Fletcher, Mary Bosanquet. Jesus, Altogether Lovely. Robert Hawes.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Caroline Frances Cornwallis | The letters in Christian Sects (which is headed by three quotations, one of them from St John's Gospel) are said to have been exchanged between one of the editors of the Small Books, and... |
Cultural formation | Harriet Corp | |
Cultural formation | Olaudah Equiano | |
Cultural formation | Olaudah Equiano | He was baptised into the |
Cultural formation | Eliza Fenwick | |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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