Contents
Contents
Cover i
Title Page iii
Copyright Page iv
Introduction vii
1. Thecla and Early Martyrs, Monastics, and Saints 1
2. Hilda of Whitby and Medieval Nuns and Abbesses 17
3. Hildegard of Bingen and Catholic Mystics and Scholars 35
4. Katherine Schütz Zell and Protestant Reformers 51
5. Teresa of Ávila and Sectarian “Heretics” 69
6. Susanna Wesley and Eighteenth-Century Evangelists 88
7. Narcissa Prentiss Whitman and American Protestant Missionaries 106
8. Jarena Lee and African American Evangelists 124
9. Elizabeth “Betsy” Fry and Women of the Social Gospel 141
10. Anne-Marie Javouhey and British and European Missionaries 161
11. Harriet Beecher Stowe and Nineteenth-Century Poets and Writers 179
12. Susannah Thompson Spurgeon and Ministers’ Wives 199
13. Aimee Semple McPherson and Pentecostal Preachers 217
14. Corrie ten Boom and Celebrated Speakers and Missionaries 235
Epilogue 255
Notes 257
Index 269
Back Ad 273
Back Cover 274