John Wesley

Standard Name: Wesley, John

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Textual Features Sarah Chapone
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 .
Textual Features Maria De Fleury
MDF celebrates the Association in a poem addressing it. Her book's full title is Unrighteous Abuse Detected and Chastised; or, A Vindication of Innocence and Integrity, Being an Answer to a Virulent Poem, Intituled, The...
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
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...
Textual Production Susanna Wesley
SW wrote the famous letter to her son John in which she outlined in detail her system of childrearing.
Wesley, Susanna. Susanna Wesley: The Complete Writings. Editor Wallace, Charles, Oxford University Press.
369ff
Textual Production Mary Bosanquet Fletcher
Paul Wesley Chilcote lists biblical texts on which she is known to have preached.
Chilcote, Paul Wesley. John Wesley and the Women Preachers of Early Methodism. Scarecrow Press.
318-20
She wrote that on this occasion [t]he Lord gave me freedom of speech, in the same way that speech was...
Textual Production Susanna Wesley
SW 's letters to her son John reached print in successive editions of his correspondence. Forty survive.
Textual Production Phillis Wheatley
The former Mary Whateley was now, by her second marriage, named Darwall, but her birth name had appeared on her earlier volume of poems. That volume includes this piece. Scholar Caroline Wigginton thinks that the...
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.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
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...
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.
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Textual Production 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....
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.
Southey's life of John Wesley was also highly regarded.
Textual Production Sarah Chapone
Both Mary Pendarves (later Mary Delany) and John Wesley had read this remarkable work in manuscript the previous year. (Wesley had been reading her writing with enjoyment since at least April 1733.)
Glover, Susan Paterson, and Sarah Chapone. “Introduction”. The Hardships of the English Laws, Routledge, pp. 1-16.
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Both Pendarves
Textual Production Julia Wedgwood
JW published in 1866 an essay on the life of Wesley which, according to C. H. Herford writing in 1915, was regarded by Wesleyans . . . as the best biography of him not composed...

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