Charles Wesley

He was of Swiss origin, ten years her senior (born in 1729 at Nyon near Geneva), and a fellow-evangelical. In 1773 John Wesley had approached him about taking on leadership of the Methodist movement...

MW 's famous younger brothers, John and Charles , seem to have had some trouble coping with the anomaly which she and her life represented for them, though John was said to be among her...

In Gloucestershire Mary Pendarves found herself the neighbour of Sarah Kirkham (later Sarah Chapone) . They became close friends. Other members of their circle (besides Mary's sister Anne ) were Charles and especially John Wesley

When Charles Wesley died, MBF remembered how often she had taken sweet counsel together with him. In March 1789 John Wesley visited her at Madeley once more on his way to Ireland. The Fletchers...

John and Charles Wesley , walking across the country to visit their mother and the rest of their family at Epworth, stopped both going and coming to visit SC at Stanton.

Sarah met John Wesley when he visited Mary's brother Robert (a friend from university) in April 1725. She became and remained a friend of John and his brother Charles , though she did not share...

SC 's friendship with John Wesley continued after her marriage, and included Wesley's brother Charles , Mary Pendarves (later Delany) , and Mary's sister Anne Granville , who stayed at her house for a week...

MDF celebrates the Association in a poem addressing it. Her book's full title is Unrighteous Abuse Detected and Chastised; or, A Vindication of Innocence and Integrity, Being an Answer to a Virulent Poem, Intituled, The...

Others, too, bear romance names in this correspondence: John and Charles Wesley are Cyrus and Araspes; Sarah Chapone is Varanese.

Like other funeral hymns that were present from the first edition (1760), including one by Charles Wesley , JCM 's is deeply shocking to the modern spirit in expressing an energetic desire to be dead...