Mary Queen of Bees
Mary [Molly] Wesley Whitelamb [1696-1734] Sister of John Wesley, founder of the Methodist Church, Epworth, England
Crippled in childhood, Mary Wesley, sister of John Wesley, founder of the Methodist Church, speaks of the Wesley household in first-person narrative built on the facts of her life.Mary lived in a strict Christian family, one of 19 children, 10 of whom survived. Her mother, Susanna Wesley, imposed a regiment where not one child after a year old was heard to cry out. Her father, Samuel Wesley, a minister at Epworth, could not provide for his family, and spent time in debtor's prison. The family taunted Mary's awkwardness and showed little sympathy for her affliction.At one point Mary addresses her family from the outside. There go the ragged We…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4982-4249-3
- EAN: 9781498242493
- Produktnummer: 30235612
- Verlag: Wipf and Stock Publishers
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 62 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 310 KB
Über den Autor
Diane Glancy is professor emerita at Macalester College. She has published six books with Wipf & Stock- Uprising of Goats (2014), One of Us (2015), Ironic Witness (2015), Mary Queen of Bees (2017), and The Servitude of Love (2017).Check out my interview with Sheila Tousey
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