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'Friend of my soul' : constructing spiritual friendship in the autobiography of Mary Fletcher

Cruickshank, Joanna 2009, 'Friend of my soul' : constructing spiritual friendship in the autobiography of Mary Fletcher, Journal for eighteenth-century studies, vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 373-387.

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Title 'Friend of my soul' : constructing spiritual friendship in the autobiography of Mary Fletcher
Author(s) Cruickshank, Joanna
Journal name Journal for eighteenth-century studies
Volume number 32
Issue number 3
Start page 373
End page 387
Total pages 14
Publisher Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Place of publication Oxford, England
Publication date 2009
ISSN 1754-0194
1754-0208
Summary Mary Bosanquet Fletcher (1739-1815) was a leading early English Methodist, active throughout her adult life as a preacher, author, spiritual director and head of a large household. She was also part of a largely unexamined network of intense and intimate friendships between Methodist women across England. This article analyses the ways in which Fletcher represented friendship in her autobiography, a text that was widely published and read throughout the nineteenth century. Fletcher's autobiography shows how religious conviction could shape a distinctive construction of female friendship, at a time when such friendships had growing social and cultural significance.
Language eng
Field of Research 210305 British History
Socio Economic Objective 950404 Religion and Society
HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal
Copyright notice ©2009, British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30021782

Document type: Journal Article
Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education
School of History, Heritage and Society
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