Susanna Wesley

Susanna Wesley
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Susanna Wesley: A Radical in the Rectory

Description of Marion Field, author of Susanna Wesley:

Susanna Wesley had an eventful life: she had to contend with the cares of motherhood (she bore nineteen children), mounting debts and a church which did not wish to see lay people, especially women, take on spiritual leadership. She is specially known for her formative influence on her son John Wesley, who in turn was to challenge her to renew her relationship with God. Told from the viewpoint of wife and mother, this new dramatisation of the life of Susanna Wesley will interest: any who enjoy a dramatic biography including a fire, a ghost, a husband in prison and a daughter who elopes. those interested in the condition of women through history, and the particular pressures of being successively the daughter/wife/mother of various ministers. Students of revival will gain a key insight from the pioneering meetings which Susanna organized in her kitchen when Church life was at a low ebb.