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Tables of Contents for Susanna Wesley
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Important Dates in Susanna Wesley's Life
xiii
2
Abbreviations
xv
Introduction
3
28
PART I / LETTERS
31
166
Introduction to the Letters
31
3
1. Religious and Sexual Politics: Yarborough and Hickes Correspondence
34
6
2. "Dear Sammy": Samuel Wesley Jr. School Correspondence
40
12
3. More Letters to "Dear Sammy"
52
12
4. The Rectory Fire
64
14
5. The Evening Prayers Controversy
78
6
6. An Age of Reason--and Credulity
84
8
7. A Rich Brother in India
92
10
8. Advice to an Oxford Man
102
15
9. Distinction at Oxford, Scandal at Home
117
13
10. A Continuing Cure of Souls
130
14
11. Advisor to the Holy Club
144
13
12. More Advice, More Concern
157
14
13. A Window and a Supportive Critic of Revival
171
13
14. Last Letters
184
13
PART II / JOURNALS
197
168
Introduction to the Journals
197
5
15. "Think Much and Speak Little": First Surviving Entries
202
13
16. "Keep a Due Guard over Your Words"
215
18
17. "You Write What Is Familiar to You by Practice"
233
19
18. "I Cannot Altogether Acquiesce"
252
18
19. "But What Do You Think?"
270
13
20. "Bend the Whole force of the Mind in a Serious Use of the Ways and Means of Religion"
283
19
21. "The Most Blest and Happy Day"
302
17
22. "These Blessed Lucid Intervals"
319
21
23. "To Feel a Vital Joy Overspread and Cheer the Heart"
340
25
PART III / EDUCATIONAL, CATECHETIACAL, AND CONTROVERSIAL WRITINGS
365
120
Introduction to the Writings
365
2
24. On Educating My Family
367
10
25. The Apostles' Creed Explicated in a Letter to Her Daughter Susanna
377
31
26. Obedience to the Laws of God: A Brief (Unfinished) Exposition on the Ten Commandments
408
17
27. A Religious Conference between Mother and Emilia
425
37
28. Some Remarks on a Letter from Whitefield
462
23
Bibliography
485
14
Index
499
A section of maps and illustrations appears after p. 16.