Sarah Mallett
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Sarah Mallet was one of the very small group of women authorised by John Wesley
to become a preacher, in the early days of Methodism
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After Wesley's death, she married, and as Sarah Boyce, she continued to preach for another forty years - despite the ban on female preaching, imposed by the Wesleyan Methodist Church in 1803.
Further details are available in her biography, 'My Dear Sally' by David East (published by World Methodist Historical Society Publications in May 2003).
John Wesley
John Wesley was a Church of England cleric and Christian theologian. Wesley is largely credited, along with his brother Charles Wesley, as founding the Methodist movement which began when he took to open-air preaching in a similar manner to George Whitefield...
to become a preacher, in the early days of Methodism
Methodism
Methodism is a movement of Protestant Christianity represented by a number of denominations and organizations, claiming a total of approximately seventy million adherents worldwide. The movement traces its roots to John Wesley's evangelistic revival movement within Anglicanism. His younger brother...
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After Wesley's death, she married, and as Sarah Boyce, she continued to preach for another forty years - despite the ban on female preaching, imposed by the Wesleyan Methodist Church in 1803.
Further details are available in her biography, 'My Dear Sally' by David East (published by World Methodist Historical Society Publications in May 2003).