Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press.
George Whitefield
Standard Name: Whitefield, George
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Residence | Bathsheba Bowers | She became deeply attached to her house and garden in Philadelphia, on Little Dock Street at Second Street. In time her name was given to either her home or the whole district, which was... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jane Cave | Of the subjects of her elegies, George Whitefield
had become internationally known (he died in New England) while Howel or Howell Harris
was a family friend and (like another Welsh Evangelical clergyman she wrote about)... |
Literary Setting | Elizabeth Charles | This one-volume novel was based on the lives of MethodistsGeorge Whitefield
and John Wesley
. Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press. |
Textual Features | Lydia Maria Child | LMC
's The Rebels, which appeared the year after Hobomok, is another historical novel set in colonial New England. The central, fictional stories are those of Grace Osborne and Lucretia Fitzherbert (an... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Lydia Maria Child | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Jane Johnson | JJ
's husband belonged to the conservative, not the evangelical wing of the Church of England
. He was concerned at the influence of Dissenting beliefs
in his congregation and in 1739, when George Whitefield |
Family and Intimate relationships | Judith Cowper Madan | This son became a lawyer but then, in 1748, underwent a religious conversion when (having come to scoff) he heard John Wesley
preach and was deeply touched. In the 1750s he abandoned the law for... |
Cultural formation | Judith Cowper Madan | From about this time she associated herself with John Wesley
's fairly new religious group called the Methodists
(then part of the Church of England). Another influence on her religious thinking was Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Charlotte McCarthy | The poems include reworkings of pastoral, occasional poems (one of them inscribed in a volume belonging to a friend), and comment on public affairs. The opening three, addressed to Chloe, are conventional in tone... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ann Martin Taylor | Her father had already treated her harshly, though he was one of the first converts of the early Methodist
preacher George Whitefield
. Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Ann Taylor Gilbert’s Album. Editor Stewart, Christina Duff, Garland. 521 |
Textual Production | Susanna Wesley | Some Remarks on a Letter from the Reverend Mr Whitefield
to the Reverend Mr Wesley
, in a letter from a Gentlewoman to her Friend was published at London: it is now known to be... |
Textual Production | Phillis Wheatley | There was published in broadside at Boston, Massachusetts, An Elegiac Poem, On the Death of . . . George Whitefield, as by Phillis
, a servant girl, of 17 years of age, belonging... |
Timeline
1761: The Countess of Huntingdon established her...
Building item
1761
The Countess of Huntingdon
established her first registered chapel, at Brighton.
30 September 1770: Charismatic evangelist George Whitefield...
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30 September 1770
Charismatic evangelist George Whitefield
died at Newburyport, near Boston, Massachusetts.
Soon after 18 March 1771: Jane Dunlap (born Harris, later Livermore)...
Writing climate item
Soon after 18 March 1771
Jane Dunlap (born Harris, later Livermore)
published at Boston, Massachusetts, her Poems, upon Several Sermons, preached by the Rev'd, and renowned, George Whitefield
, while in Boston.
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