RT Book T1 Women and the shaping of British Methodism: Persistent preachers, 1807-1907 T2 Gender in History T2 Gender in History Ser A1 Lloyd, Jennifer M. LA English PP Manchester PB Manchester University Press YR 2010 UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/738981648 AB 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-ce NO Description based upon print version of record CN BX8493 .L66 2009 SN 9780719078859 K1 Great Britain ; Church history ; 19th century K1 Methodist Church (Great Britain) ; Clergy ; History ; 19th century K1 Methodist women ; Great Britain ; History ; 19th century K1 Electronic books