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DAVIES, REV. E. - Life and Journal of Mrs. Hester Ann Rogers

Title: Life and Journal of Mrs. Hester Ann Rogers
Description: Reading, MA: Holiness Book Concern, 1882. First Edition; First Impression. Hardcover. Green cover with gold print. Wear to edge and top and bottom of spine frayed. Block print of Ms. Rogers opposite title page. Front hinge is cracked but not loose. Endpaper is loose. Contents clean. Hester Rogers (31 January 1756 – 10 October 1794) was a British Methodist writer. Hester Ann Roe was born in Macclesfield at the end of January in 1756. She had a strict but caring upbringing. She was confirmed in 1769 by the Bishop of Chester, Edmund Keene, into the Church of England. She dated her conversion to Methodism to 11 November 1774 after hearing Samuel Bardsley preach. He was one of John Wesley's Methodist itinerant preachers. Hester began a lifelong correspondence with the Methodist founder John Wesley after meeting him in 1776.She was a Methodist class leader and one her students was Agnes Bulmer. Hester visited the sick. Five years later she met another Methodist preacher named James Rogers and his wife Ann. His wife died in February 1784 after childbirth and in line with Ann's wishes James married Hester in the following August. They both then went to evangelise in Ireland. Rare. We provide delivery tracking on US orders.; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 191 pages. Good with no dust jacket .

Keywords: Biography Holiness Rare

Price: US$ 79.97 Seller: A Book Legacy
- Book number: 61952

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