'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, doi: 10.1111/j.1754-0208.2009.00216.x. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title 'Friend of my soul' : constructing spiritual friendship in the autobiography of Mary Fletcher Author(s) Cruickshank, Joanna orcid.org/0000-0001-9155-2625 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 DOI 10.1111/j.1754-0208.2009.00216.x 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 Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Fri, 15 Jan 2010, 15:28:07 EST Wed, 20 Jan 2010, 13:31:40 EST Wed, 20 Jan 2010, 13:33:52 EST Wed, 20 Jan 2010, 14:12:25 EST Wed, 24 Feb 2010, 16:01:52 EST Mon, 02 Aug 2010, 11:22:35 EST Fri, 17 Feb 2012, 10:40:27 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 1 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 1055 Abstract Views, 2 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Fri, 15 Jan 2010, 15:28:04 EST

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