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her beauty, others for her witticism rather than her deeperqualities. She herself discovered that some of the men whoproposed to her were unthinkable as life companions whileher parents prohibited her to keep company with others. Itwas not easy to be Hetty Wesley from Epworth who livedin a time and atmosphere that she herself had not created,but that one expected that she should accept and adapt to.She has expressed her extremely unhappy situation in asmall poem to her mother in the hope that she shouldinfluence her husband to his daughter´ s advantage:“Pray speak a word in time of need,And with my sour-looked fatherPlead For your distressed daughter.”Hetty had inherited the poetic vein from her fatherlike her brother Charles.<strong>THE</strong> FIRST PROPOSALOne of the first proposals came from John Romleywho was very serious. He had worked as an assistant to thevicar Samuel Wesley, and under a short time been curate inEpworth. He was also a teacher.Hetty was not specially interested in him. SamuelWesley was thorough and made an investigation of allcandidates who proposed to his seven daughters. He foundthat Romley was no suitable marriage partner for Hetty.Samuel broke up their contact and sent Hetty away toKelstein near Louth to a Mr. and Mrs. Grantham.She worked as a governess to the two smallchildren. The Grantham´ s were a rich family, and Hetty40
enjoyed being with the family. Who in turn showed theirappreciation and treated her well.<strong>THE</strong> SECOND PROPOSALIt was in Kelstein that the problems started for the27 year old Hetty. This was not due to the family sheworked with. The reason was that she met a young lawyer.The author G. J. Stevensson tells us in his book “Memorialsof the Wesley Family” that the lawyers name was WillAtkinson. He tells us that Will Atkinson was clever in hisprofession, and that he came from a respectable family.Samuel Wesley came to a different conclusion in hisinvestigation of his personality. Samuel Wesley found outthat Atkinson was a lawyer without principles, and Samueladvised Hetty not to see him anymore. This was SamuelWesley´ s answer to Will Atkinson´ s inquiry if he couldmarry Hetty.RUN AWAY TO GET MARRIEDAs Hetty´ s parents had given their definite no toher marriage, and the passions or shall we say that theiryouthful love were so strong, the lover persuaded her to runaway with him to marry, so she agreed.Because of the strong moral at the time, manyyoung couple run away and married against the will of theirparents. There grew up, due to the strong moral, acompletely new marriage industry in England and Scotland.Some years ago I visited a famous blacksmith´ sworkshop in Gretna Green. The blacksmith had the right to41
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Page 18 and 19: LITERARY ACTIVITYSamuel Wesley had
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Page 24 and 25: can partly thank Susanna that layme
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Page 30 and 31: Emilia was helpful and took respons
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Page 34 and 35: SULKY MARRIES RICHARD ELLISONUnfort
Page 36 and 37: Richard had liked very much, had be
Page 38 and 39: The Vicar John Whitelamb opened his
Page 42 and 43: perform weddings. Many young Englis
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Page 46 and 47: The Wesley-girls would not have man
Page 48 and 49: Hetty had surely hoped that the new
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Page 52 and 53: Your fatherS. Wesley.”FATHER AND
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Page 56 and 57: TO DIE IN HAPPINESSHetty said to a
Page 58 and 59: that he used to bring his dog with
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Page 62 and 63: THE TRUE NATURE OF WESTLEY HALLThe
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Mrs. Harrison is not the only one w
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Nottingham. On a wall in a small si
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was born in a pub should be accepte
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The vicar Rev. John Fletcher from M
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Huntingdon. The countess was more a
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This was an 84 years old woman who
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At the bottom of the montage is a p
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Lords. It was only a selection of t
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“The sacred bow he so divinelydre
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Conference; because we do not get a
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“PERSONALISM - THE SOUNDESTPOSITI
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method. Dr. Kristoffersen was respo
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She was critical against her father
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John Wesley went from an OxfordDon
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