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Mary Bosanquet Fletcher

A Methodist woman of Leytonstone and Yorkshire who wrote to John Wesley in 1771 to defend women's speaking in public, and later the wife and widow of John Fletcher, vicar of Madeley.

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Mary Bosanquet Fletcher

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“If I did not believe so, I would not act in an extraordinary manner. I praise God, I feel him near, and I prove his faithfulness every day.”

Letter to John Wesley from Cross-Hall, 1771, in Zechariah Taft, Biographical Sketches of the Lives and Public Ministry of Various Holy Women, volume 1, page 23

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1 Corinthians 11:5 And every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, for it is just as if her head were shaved. BSB

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A Methodist woman of Leytonstone and Yorkshire who wrote to John Wesley in 1771 to defend women's speaking in public, and later the wife and widow of John Fletcher, vicar of Madeley.

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