Wu, Duncan, editor. Romanticism: An Anthology. Blackwell.
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Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Isabella Spence | During the 1820s Spence and Benger, then past their youth and each living on a pittance, were associated in running a salon on the model of those of the rich (like Lady Holland) or the... |
Textual Production | Robert Southey | It remained in the British school curriculum for decades and went through numerous editions into the twentieth century. Wu, Duncan, editor. Romanticism: An Anthology. Blackwell. 560 British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Material Conditions of Writing | Catherine Phillips | 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... |
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 |
Friends, Associates | Judith Cowper Madan | 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... |
Literary responses | Judith Cowper Madan | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | John Oliver Hobbes | The Science of Life uses as its examples St Ignatius
, John Wesley
, and Tolstoy
. Richards, John Morgan, and John Oliver Hobbes. “Pearl Richards Craigie: Biographical Sketch by her Father”. The Life of John Oliver Hobbes, J. Murray. 31 |
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. 61 Aucott, Shirley. Women of Courage, Vision and Talent: lives in Leicester 1780 to 1925. Shirley Aucott. 121 |
Textual Features | Anne Hart Gilbert | 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— Ferguson, Moira, editor. The Hart Sisters: Early African Caribbean Writers, Evangelicals, and Radicals. University of Nebraska Press. 62 |
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... |
Publishing | Mary Bosanquet Fletcher | Many re-issues followed, extending to the year 1815. The original edition mentions that it was sold at the Foundry, Moorfields Fletcher, Mary Bosanquet. Jesus, Altogether Lovely. Robert Hawes. title-page |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Bosanquet Fletcher | 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... |
Textual Production | Mary Bosanquet Fletcher | 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 |
Textual Production | Mary Bosanquet Fletcher | John A. Hargreaves
in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography relates that MBF
recorded the details of her medical practice and of what she prescribed, in commonplace-books which she kept, and in her copy of... |
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