John Wesley

Standard Name: Wesley, John

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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
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
Baldwin's father, a Wesleyan minister, was more liberal in his religious influence than her mother. He hoped Louisa would grow up to be...
Cultural formation Sarah Chapone
As a country clergyman's daughter SC was an Anglican of the English professional class. Her correspondence with John Wesley bears witness to the strength and immediacy of her Christian faith, but she did not agree...
death Susanna Wesley
SW died at her son John 's Methodist headquarters of The Foundery in London.
The date has also been given as 23 July.
Wesley, Susanna. “Introduction”. Susanna Wesley: The Complete Writings, edited by Charles, Jr Wallace, Oxford University Press, 1997.
xiv
Family and Intimate relationships Sarah Chapone
John Wesley 's editor calls his correspondence with Sarah Kirkham their incipient love affair, but adds that this was broken off before she was married.
Wesley, John. The Works of John Wesley. Clarendon; Oxford University Press, 1975–1983.
25: 247n1
Family and Intimate relationships Mehetabel Wright
MW 's famous younger brothers, John and Charles , seem to have had some trouble coping with the anomaly which she and her life represented for them, though John was said to be among her...
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...
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
SW bore the child who became the most famous of all her offspring: John Wesley , father of Methodism .
Wesley, Susanna. “Introduction”. Susanna Wesley: The Complete Writings, edited by Charles, Jr Wallace, Oxford University Press, 1997.
xiii
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

Timeline

: Charles Wesley and two or three other undergraduates...

Building item

Spring 1729

Charles Wesley and two or three other undergraduates founded a society at Oxford which others called methodistical.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.

24 May 1738: John Wesley experienced conversion and the...

Building item

24 May 1738

John Wesley experienced conversion and the assurance of salvation, at the Aldersgate Street meeting-house in London.
Marriott, Sir John A. R. Oxford, Its Place in National History. Clarendon, 1933.
158

April 1742: John Wesley's earliest list of members of...

Building item

April 1742

John Wesley 's earliest list of members of the Foundery Society (which met at The Foundery, Moorfields, East London) had forty-seven women to only nineteen men.
Chilcote, Paul Wesley. John Wesley and the Women Preachers of Early Methodism. Scarecrow Press, 1991.
48-9

9 November 1757: John Wesley recorded his practice of giving...

Building item

9 November 1757

John Wesley recorded his practice of giving one hour a day to using a special apparatus on people who came to be electrified, thereby curing them of various disorders.
Brett, Simon, b. 1945, editor. The Faber Book of Diaries. Faber, 1987.
403

8 February 1761: In the first of two years' very great revival...

Building item

8 February 1761

In the first of two years' very great revival among the [Methodist ] societies,
Fletcher, Mary Bosanquet. The Life of Mrs. Mary Fletcher. Editor Moore, Henry, 1751 - 1844, T. Mason and G. Lane, 1837.
27
Sarah Crosby , on a visit to Derby and having the previous week conducted a prayer meeting of twenty-seven...

1769: Hannah Ballimg: move in unlikely event of...

Building item

1769

Hannah Ball opened an early Methodist Sunday school at High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Feminist Companion Archive.

30 September 1770: Charismatic evangelist George Whitefield...

Building item

30 September 1770

Charismatic evangelist George Whitefield died at Newburyport, near Boston, Massachusetts.
Wheatley, Phillis, and Henry Louis, Jr Gates. The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley. Editor Shields, John C., Oxford University Press, 1988.
22ff

1774: John Wesley published his Thoughts upon Slavery....

Building item

1774

John Wesley published his Thoughts upon Slavery. In condemning the institution, he made ending the slave trade and emancipating existent slaves official policies of the Methodist movement.
Wesley, John, and Charles, Jr Yrigoyen. “Thoughts Upon Slavery”. John Wesley: Holiness of Heart and Life. An Invitation to Spiritual Growth, 1996.

January 1778: John Wesley and others began publishing the...

Building item

January 1778

John Wesley and others began publishing the Arminian Magazine: consisting of extracts and original translations on universal redemptions.
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.

1784: John Wesley broke finally with the Church...

Building item

1784

John Wesley broke finally with the Church of England , though still vacillating as to whether to espouse full Evangelicism ; in 1787 his Methodist chapels were registered as Dissenting chapels.
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952.
86, 89 and n37

1787: John Wesley, debating how far to take the...

Building item

1787

John Wesley , debating how far to take the Methodists in the direction of Evangelicism , talked over the issue by letter with John Newton , ex-slave-captain and leading Evangelical.
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952.
89 and n37

After 2 March 1791: Following the death of John Wesley, the Methodists...

Building item

After 2 March 1791

Following the death of John Wesley , the Methodists extended the circuit system throughout Britain as an alternative to the parish system used by the Established Church
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952.
86
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.

By August 1833: Agnes Bulmer née Collinson (1775-1836) published...

Women writers item

By August 1833

Agnes Bulmer née Collinson (1775-1836) published her Methodist epic poem Messiah's Kingdom, in nearly 14,000 lines of rhymed couplets.
Winckles, Andrew O. “The Book of Nature and the Methodist Epic: Agnes Bulmer’s Analogic Poetics and the End(s) of Romanticism”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
22
, No. 2, May 2015, pp. 209-28.
219, 210

Texts

Wesley, John. The Works of John Wesley. Clarendon; Oxford University Press, 1983.
Wesley, John, and Charles, Jr Yrigoyen. “Thoughts Upon Slavery”. John Wesley: Holiness of Heart and Life. An Invitation to Spiritual Growth.