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John Wesley
Standard Name: Wesley, John
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Textual Production | Mary Bosanquet Fletcher | Mary Bosanquet (later Fletcher)
wrote an actual letter which reached print the same year as A Letter to the Rev. Mr. John Wesley, ascribed to a Gentlewoman but signed with her initials. |
Textual Production | Mary Bosanquet Fletcher | Mary Bosanquet (later Fletcher)
wrote almost weekly to the ex-fashionable preacher Dr William Dodd
(in prison for forgery) until he was hanged, out of concern for his soul. John Wesley
visited Dodd in prison, and... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Mary Bosanquet Fletcher | The day after the funeral of her husband John Fletcher
, while her soul was as in the lion's den, Fletcher, Mary Bosanquet. The Life of Mrs. Mary Fletcher. Editor Moore, Henry, T. Mason and G. Lane. 155 Fletcher, Mary Bosanquet. The Life of Mrs. Mary Fletcher. Editor Moore, Henry, T. Mason and G. Lane. 156-65 |
Textual Production | Mary Bosanquet Fletcher | 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. Burge, Janet. Women Preachers in Community: Sarah Ryan, Sarah Crosby, Mary Bosanquet. Foundery Press. 19 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Bosanquet Fletcher | 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... |
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 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Eliza Fenwick | EF
's father, Peter Jaco
, born in 1721, was a Cornishman, who early in life worked for his father in the pilchard fishery; ships owned by the family sailed in the Mediterranean. EF
said... |
Publishing | Olaudah Equiano | 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... |
Literary responses | Florence Dixie | |
Friends, Associates | Mary Deverell | 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... |
Textual Production | Mary Delany | Letters written by the future MD
as Aspasia to John Wesley
over this span of time are extant, and are printed among his works. Wesley, John. The Works of John Wesley. Clarendon; Oxford University Press. 25: 246-390 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Delany | 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 |
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