Women and the shaping of British Methodism persistent preachers, 1807-1907 /

A response to the prominent Methodist historian David Hempton's call to analyse women's experience within Methodism, this book is the first to deal with British Methodist women preachers over the entire 19th century.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lloyd, Jennifer M.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2009.
Series:Gender in history
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • Women in eighteenth-century Methodism
  • Women preachers' place in a divided Methodism
  • The heyday of female itinerancy
  • Philanthropists, volunteers, fund-raisers, and local preachers
  • Women as revivalists
  • Women in missions at home and abroad
  • Deaconesses, sisters of the people and the revival of female itinerancy.