Women and the Shaping of British Methodism: Persistent Preachers, 1807-1907
Jennifer M. Lloyd
Abstract
A response to the prominent Methodist historian David Hempton's call to analyse women's experience within Methodism, this book deals with British Methodist women preachers over the entire nineteenth century, with special emphasis on the Primitive Methodists and Bible Christians. The book covers women preachers in Wesley's lifetime, the reason why some Methodist sects allowed women to preach and others did not, and the experience of Bible Christian and Primitive Methodist female evangelists before 1850. It also describes the many other ways in which women supported their chapel communities. The ... More
A response to the prominent Methodist historian David Hempton's call to analyse women's experience within Methodism, this book deals with British Methodist women preachers over the entire nineteenth century, with special emphasis on the Primitive Methodists and Bible Christians. The book covers women preachers in Wesley's lifetime, the reason why some Methodist sects allowed women to preach and others did not, and the experience of Bible Christian and Primitive Methodist female evangelists before 1850. It also describes the many other ways in which women supported their chapel communities. The second half of the book includes the careers of mid-century women revivalists, the opportunities, home and foreign missions offered for female evangelism, the emergence of deaconess evangelists and Sisters of the People in late century, and the brief revival of female itinerancy among the Bible Christians.
Keywords:
David Hempton,
Methodism,
Methodist women preachers,
female itinerancy,
Primitive Methodists,
Bible Christians,
female evangelists,
chapel communities,
women revivalists,
deaconess evangelists
Bibliographic Information
Print publication date: 2010 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780719078859 |
Published to Manchester Scholarship Online: July 2012 |
DOI:10.7228/manchester/9780719078859.001.0001 |