John Wesley

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...

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...

John Wesley noted that he thought some of the elegies of MWDquite equal to Mr. Gray 's.

John Wesley responded by invoking what has later been called exceptionalism. He agreed that Mary Bosanquet had an Extraordinary Call, such as Saint Paul himself had recognised when he permitted women to speak at Corinth...

Ross 's epilogue both praises FD 's work and seeks to recommend it by associating it with Darwin , John Wesley , and Voltaire .

Wesley himself said of her speaking, which he would not call preaching, that it was as a fire, conveying both light and heat to the hearts of all that hear her . . . Her...

This one-volume novel was based on the lives of MethodistsGeorge Whitefield and John Wesley . It advocates diary-keeping as a means by which women can maintain serenity in the midst of domestic disharmony.

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.

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...

In her large family SW was an innovating educator, a pedagogic theorist with plenty of subjects on whom to test her theories in action. She taught her children as if running a small boarding school...

Some of SC 's letters remain at Gloucestershire Record Office , in the Bodleian Library , and among Richardson's correspondence in the Victoria and Albert Museum . Her surviving letters to John Wesley are printed...

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...

For the first time some of SW 's writing was published: by her son John in the first volume of the Arminian Magazine.

Equiano was already a well-known figure in the abolitionist movement in Britain when his book appeared. He had issued Proposals for his subscription in November 1788 (the same month that George III fell ill, probably...

SC used letters to introduce John Wesley to the works of Mary Astell —just as, later, she used letters to raise the consciousness of George Ballard .