1st Edition

The Life of Wesley: and the Rise and Progress of Methodism, by Robert Southey

Edited By Tim Fulford Copyright 2022
312 Pages
by Routledge

The Life of Wesley was one of Southey’s most influential and bestselling works. It was the first biography of John Wesley – the major figure in the largest religious movement of the eighteenth century – to be published by anyone beyond the Methodist community. In addition, it was a major history of the rise of a phenomenon that Southey and many others saw as a defining sign of contemporary... Read more

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

List of Illustrations

Editorial Introduction

Southey’s Life of Wesley

Appendix A: Eyewitness Accounts of Certain Disturbances at the Wesley Family Home

Appendix B: Wesley and Elizabeth Briggs: a Methodist Sexual Abuse Scandal?

Appendix C: Reviews of Southey’s Life of Wesley

Appendix D: Remarks on the Life and Character of John Wesley, by the Late Alexander Knox, Esq.

Biography

Tim Fulford is Professor of English at De Montford University, UK