John Wesley

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...

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...

In 1731 John Wesley expressed his admiration for SC 's courage under the sharpest pain an embodied spirit can know, that of childbirth. What he chiefly admired, however, was her remark that if her strength...

John and Charles Wesley , walking across the country to visit their mother and the rest of their family at Epworth, stopped both going and coming to visit SC at Stanton.

John Wesley made one of his visits to Mary Bosanquet 's settlement at Cross Hall, which he called a pattern, and a general blessing to the country.

Sarah met John Wesley when he visited Mary's brother Robert (a friend from university) in April 1725. She became and remained a friend of John and his brother Charles , though she did not share...

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...

SC 's friendship with John Wesley continued after her marriage, and included Wesley's brother Charles , Mary Pendarves (later Delany) , and Mary's sister Anne Granville , who stayed at her house for a week...

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...

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...

In Gloucestershire Mary Pendarves found herself the neighbour of Sarah Kirkham (later Sarah Chapone) . They became close friends. Other members of their circle (besides Mary's sister Anne ) were Charles and especially John Wesley

Having already praised many contemporary women writers in print, EOB was now able to meet them. The move to London was accomplished principally through the zealous friendship of Miss Sarah Wesley , who had already...

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography notes both that MD received patronage from Bristol heiress Ann Lovell Gwatkin , and that Hannah More emphatically did not take to her, though their paths must repeatedly have...

After her marriage she met John Wesley when he visited Winchester, and he wrote her a letter advising her (in a kindly tone) to remain tolerant in face of her father-in-law's disapproval, and to try...

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