Spiritual Pilgrim: A Reassessment of the Life of the Countess of Huntingdon

by Edwin Welch

Book Overview

Selina, Countess of Huntingdon (1707-91), was the only woman to play a prominent role in the Methodist Revival of the eighteenth century. Based on extensive original manuscript sources, including letters and papers, Edwin Welch's Spiritual Pilgrim traces Selina's story from a genteel but impoverished upbringing and the separation of her parents, to her marriage to Theophilus Hasting, the Ninth Earl of Huntingdon, to her clashes with the cleric...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783160020
• ISBN13: 9781783160020
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Length: 233 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.3"