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
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 |
