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
Summary
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