Women and the shaping of British Methodism [electronic resource] : persistent preachers, 1807-1907 / Jennifer Lloyd.
Series: Gender in historyPublication details: Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2009.Description: ix, 305 p. : illISBN:- 9780719078859 (hbk.)
- 9781847793232 (e-book)
- 287.0820941 22
- BX8493 .L66 2009eb
eBooks
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.