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Susanna Wesley

A Biography by Eliza Clarke

Susanna Wesley · 1669–1742

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Eliza Clarke’s biography of Susanna Wesley, mother of John and Charles Wesley, whose ordered household and patient teaching at Epworth helped shape two of the great figures of English Christianity. It follows her from birth to widowhood—her marriage, her method of training her children, the rectory fire, and the trials and steadfast faith of her later years. A portrait of quiet, persevering godliness in the midst of hardship.

THE armies of the Church Militant throughout the world were never commanded by a better general than John Wesley. The military instinct was strong in every fibre of his keen mind and wiry body, and his genius for organizing has probably had far more to do with keeping the hosts of Methodism in vigorous marching order for the last hundred and fifty years, than any…
From Birth and Ancestry
  1. 1 Birth and Ancestry 10 min
  2. 2 Youth and Marriage 8 min
  3. 3 Early Married Life 10 min
  4. 4 Later Married Life 10 min
  5. 5 Teaching and Training 22 min
  6. 6 Trials and Troubles 22 min
  7. 7 Maternal Solicitude 15 min
  8. 8 Fire and Peril 25 min
  9. 9 The Home Rebuilt 18 min
  10. 10 Teaching in Public 18 min
  11. 11 The Supernatural Noises 19 min
  12. 12 Disappointments and Perplexities 35 min
  13. 13 Partings 49 min
  14. 14 Widowhood 25 min
  15. 15 Last Years 17 min
  16. 16 Survivors and Descendants 46 min