The life of Mary Dudley, including an account of her religious engagements and extracts from her letters : with an appendix, containing some account of the illness and death of her daughter Hannah Dudley,

The autobiography of Mary Dudley (1750-1823) covers her life from childhood, through religious conversions from Anglicanism to Methodism to Quakerism, and her travels as an itinerant Quaker missionary. As a child she has a liking for 'vain amusements'. At age 20 she is shocked out of her v...

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Main Author: Dudley, Mary, 1750-1823 (Author)
Corporate Author: Adam Matthew Digital (Firm) (digitiser.)
Other Authors: Dudley, Elizabeth, 1779-1849 (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Elizabeth Dudley, 1825.
Series:AM Scholar: Women's Studies.
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Summary:The autobiography of Mary Dudley (1750-1823) covers her life from childhood, through religious conversions from Anglicanism to Methodism to Quakerism, and her travels as an itinerant Quaker missionary. As a child she has a liking for 'vain amusements'. At age 20 she is shocked out of her vanity by the death of her grandmother, and the realisation of the brevity of life. At this time she begins looking for communion with God, and joins the Methodists, then the Society of Friends, and in 1773 joins the Quakers travelling as a missionary. Leaving her husband and seven children at home she travels through Ireland, England, Scotland and the Channel Islands, and to Europe where she preached to Anabaptist and Moravian congregations.
Item Description:"Collection: Women's Autobiographies"--Home page.
"Original Microfilm Part: Part 1: Rare printed autobiographies covering thirty-three womens lives, 1713-1859"--Home page.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (1 volume (iv, 380 pages)).