Once Ryan
and Bosanquet were running their orphanage together, they were joined in the project by Crosby and Ann Tripp
, a pious young woman (born in 1745) who became governess to the children. She...
Friends, Associates
Mary Bosanquet Fletcher
Ryan's niece Sarah or Sally Lawrence
was educated by MBF
and later became her adopted daughter as well as her household servant, my dearest child and friend.
Fletcher, Mary Bosanquet. The Life of Mrs. Mary Fletcher. Editor Moore, Henry, 1751 - 1844, T. Mason and G. Lane, 1837.
Later the same month she resolved to embark on a course of self-denial (not severe enough to rouse the ire of Sally Lawrence
, who would suspect she was doing herself harm). On two days...
Publishing
Mary Bosanquet Fletcher
Four years after MBF
's death, in 1819, there appeared in print A Legacy to the People of Madeley, by herself and Joseph Entwhistle or Entwisle
. The following year there was published at...
Textual Production
Mary Bosanquet Fletcher
Apart from the testimonies she wrote about her husband
and sent to John Wesley and her Swiss brother-in-law, MBF
wrote an account of [the] devoted life and happy death of her adopted daughter Sarah Lawrence