John Wesley

The day after the funeral of her husband John Fletcher , while her soul was as in the lion's den,MBF wrote a detailed and heart-rending account to John Wesley of the death.

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.

Crosby and Ryan, born in 1729 and 1724 respectively, were both remarkable women. Crosby at her death left three or four volumes of manuscript journals (300-400 packed pages each), intended by her for print and...

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...

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...

In this text of religious counsel, MBF lists her topics as sub-headings uncharacteristic of an actual letter. She translates her correspondent's approaching journey into spiritual terms: I see you as a ship just launching into...

Apart from the testimonies she wrote about her husband and sent to John Wesley and her Swiss brother-in-law, MBF wrote an account of [the] devoted life and happy death of her adopted daughter Sarah Lawrence

She describes the effect of the first Methodists in Antigua, the conversion of her own maternal grandmother, the damage done by false pretended [white] Brethren of soaring profession and grov'ling practice—and then...

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 .

The Science of Life uses as its examples St Ignatius , John Wesley , and Tolstoy . In Dante and Botticelli she argues from her two Italian examples that the best possible training for...

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...

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

About three years after this JCM invited John Wesley to stay with her family overnight, apparently hoping that serious conversation between him and her husband (who was gravely ill at the time) might persuade Martin...

Roger Lonsdale in 1990 followed Falconer Madan in supposing that her child-bearing and the influence of John Wesley and the Methodists amounted to sufficient explanation for her ceasing to write. Valerie Rumbold suggested in 1996...

That same year CP published Reasons why the People called Quakers cannot so fully unite with the Methodists, in their Missions to the Negroes in the West Indian Islands and Africa, as freely to...