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.
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Mehetabel Wright
Of MW
's letters few have survived. On 13 July 1744 she wrote with painful humility to her brother John
, emphasising her own unprofitableness. I live in hope you won't forget my husband....
