Women and the Shaping of British Methodism

Jennifer Lloyd is Associate Professor of History at the College at Brockport, State University of New York

• List of figuresAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. Women in eighteenth-century Methodism2. Women preachers’ place in a divided Methodism3. The heyday of female itinerancy4. Philanthropists, volunteers, fund-raisers and local preachers5. Women as revivalists6. Women in missions at home and abroad7. Deaconesses, Sisters of the People and the revival of female itinerancyAfterwordBibliographyIndex

Lloyd gives a detailed and complex account of the nineteenth century, successfully combining theory and specific narrative ... each chapter interweaves narrative and lively detail with analysis and theoretical reflection ... this is an exciting book, readable as well as scholarly ... the theoretical analysis, while setting a standard, also raises questions ... which should inspire others to continue exploration.Margaret Jones, Wesley and Methodist Studies, 4 2012