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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Louisa Baldwin | The family's narrow social life revolved around the Methodist society. Taylor, Ina. Victorian Sisters. Adler and Adler, 1987. 20 Middlemas, Keith, and John Barnes. Baldwin: A Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1969. 7-8 |
Cultural formation | Sarah Chapone | |
Cultural formation | Mehetabel Wright | MW
wrote to her brother John
about her search for God. Lonsdale, Roger, editor. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Oxford University Press, 1990. 111 Wesley, John. The Works of John Wesley. Clarendon; Oxford University Press, 1975–1983. 25: 112-13 |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Heyrick | She was born a Dissenter
and until her marriage attended the Presbyterian
church in East Bond Street, Leicester. John Wesley
visited the Coltman household during her youth. Later, during her widowhood, she became a Quaker
. Beale, Catherine Hutton, editor. Catherine Hutton and Her Friends. Cornish Brothers, 1895. 61 Aucott, Shirley. Women of Courage, Vision and Talent: lives in Leicester 1780 to 1925. Shirley Aucott, 2008. 121 |
Cultural formation | Mehetabel Wright | John Wesley
arranged for her to convalesce at Bristol, and she developed a feeling of personal worthlessness which her relations identified as conviction of sin: a spiritually desirable state tending to conversion and salvation. Lonsdale, Roger, editor. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Oxford University Press, 1990. 111 |
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 |
death | Susanna Wesley | |
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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Susanna Wesley | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Louisa Baldwin | The Reverend George Browne Macdonald
, Louisa's father, was a well-known Methodist preacher, whose own father, James Macdonald
, had been ordained by John Wesley
himself. Middlemas, Keith, and John Barnes. Baldwin: A Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1969. 8 Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Jane Cave | The couple (Jane aged thirty-one and Thomas about a decade younger)) married without the consent of Thomas Winscom's father, Jasper (an active Methodist and a correspondent of John Wesley
). Jasper, although he judged JC |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mehetabel Wright | Susanna Wesley
told her son John
that she would not be sorry to part with Hetty
, being quite tired out with her very licensuous and scandalous adventures. qtd. in Knights, Elspeth. “A Licensuous Daughter: Mehetabel Wesley, 1697-1750”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 4 , No. 1, 1997, pp. 15-38. 18, 32 |
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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mehetabel Wright | Samuel Wesley
apostrophised his daughter Hetty
(writing to his son John
), Gangrene farewell! And mayst thou never cause me any pain hereafter. qtd. in Knights, Elspeth. “A Licensuous Daughter: Mehetabel Wesley, 1697-1750”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 4 , No. 1, 1997, pp. 15-38. 15, 30 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mehetabel Wright | MW
's brother John
offended their father by alluding in a sermon preached at Wroot to the harshness meted out to Hetty. Lonsdale, Roger, editor. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Oxford University Press, 1990. 110 |