Contents

Important Dates in Susanna Wesley’s Life

Abbreviations

Introduction

PART I / LETTERS

Introduction to the Letters

1. Religious and Sexual Politics: Yarborough and Hickes Correspondence

2. “Dear Sammy”: Samuel Wesley Jr. School Correspondence

3. More Letters to “Dear Sammy”

4. The Rectory Fire

5. The Evening Prayers Controversy

6. An Age of Reason—and Credulity

7. A Rich Brother in India

8. Advice to an Oxford Man

9. Distinction at Oxford, Scandal at Home

10. A Continuing Cure of Souls

11. Advisor to the Holy Club

12. More Advice, More Concern

13. A Widow and a Supportive Critic of Revival

14. Last Letters

PART II / JOURNALS

Introduction to the Journals

15. “Think Much and Speak Little”: First Surviving Entries

16. “Keep a Due Guard over Your Words”

17. “You Write What Is Familiar to You by Practice”

18. “I Cannot Altogether Acquiesce”

19. “But What Do You Think?”

20. “Bend the Whole Force of the Mind in a Serious Use of the Ways and Means of Religion”

21. “The Most Blest and Happy Day”

22. “These Blessed Lucid Intervals”

23. “To Feel a Vital Joy Overspread and Cheer the Heart”

PART III / EDUCATIONAL, CATECHETICAL, AND CONTROVERSIAL WRITINGS

Introduction to the Writings

24. On Educating My Family

25. The Apostles’ Creed Explicated in a Letter to Her Daughter Susanna

26. Obedience to the Laws of God: A Brief (Unfinished) Exposition on the Ten Commandments

27. A Religious Conference between Mother and Emilia

28. Some Remarks on a Letter from Whitefield

Bibliography

Index

A section of maps and illustrations appears after p. 16.