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 nineteenth century. The author 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. She also describes the many other ways in which women supported their chapel communities. The book also includes discussion of 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. -- .
ISBN: | 9780719078859 |
Publication date: | 1st April 2010 |
Author: | Jennifer M. Lloyd |
Publisher: | Manchester University Press |
Format: | Hardback |
Pagination: | 320 pages |
Series: | Gender in History |
Genres: |
European history Methodist Churches Gender studies: women and girls |