Jennifer M. Lloyd 
Women and the shaping of British Methodism 
Persistent preachers, 1807–1907

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.

Tabella dei contenuti

List of figures
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Women in eighteenth-century Methodism
2. Women preachers’ place in a divided Methodism
3. The heyday of female itinerancy
4. Philanthropists, volunteers, fund-raisers and local preachers
5. Women as revivalists
6. Women in missions at home and abroad
7. Deaconesses, Sisters of the People and the revival of female itinerancy
Afterword
Bibliography
Index

Circa l’autore

Lynn Abrams is Professor of Gender History at the University of Glasgow