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THIS IS THE DIARY JUNCTION - DATA AND LINKS FOR OVER 500 HISTORICAL AND LITERARY DIARISTS PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT ALSO TO LOOK AT KIP FENN, A MAJOR NOVEL ABOUT THE 21st CENTURY - freely available on this site Wesley, Charles ___ 1707-1788 ___ British ___ priest BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY Charles was born at Epworth, Lincolnshire, and educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford. Like his older brother, John, he was involved with the Holy Club, the Methodists. He was ordained in the Church of England in 1735, and that same year went to Georgia, US, with John. He held the post of secretary to the colonial governor, James Edward Oglethorpe, until ill health forced him to relinquish it, and, eventually, to return to England. After some kind of religious experience in 1738, he began writing hymns and preaching at meetings with his brother and George Whitefield. For the best part of two decades, until the mid-1750s, Charles and John travelled widely together on evangelical missions. Charles married Sarah Gwynne in 1749, and she travelled with them. From 1756, he preached mainly in Bristol and London. He is particularly well remembered for his hymns, many of which are still used in Protestant churches. He is said to have composed over 6,000. The Wesleys held different views on separation from the Church of England, with Charles firmly opposed. All three of the great Methodist preachers were diarists, but, it is said, whereas George Whitefield was Methodism's orator, and John Wesley its organiser, Charles Wesley was its poet. One biography link DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS 1736-1756 ___ literary religious social travel US WEB TEXT LINKS etext ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS Manchester University: Methodist Archives and Research Centre ___ possibly SOME PUBLISHED TITLES The Journal of Charles Wesley May 2005 THIS IS THE DIARY JUNCTION - DATA AND LINKS FOR OVER 500 HISTORICAL AND LITERARY DIARISTS Please email if you have any corrections, additions or comments.

IMPORTANT NOTES AND CAUTIONS: 1) The first line of basic information may be incomplete in several ways: some historical figures have different names (titles, pen-names); their birth and death dates may be unknown or uncertain (g - guess, c - circa); similarly, their occupations may be unknown, or they may have had other jobs; and, for early diarists, I've used 'British' a bit too freely. 2) The biographical summary may not be accurate. It was compiled quickly from various sources, mostly on the internet, and the facts were not checked anywhere near as rigorously as they would have been if they'd been intended for publication in a printed form. 3) The journal dates and descriptors (which are in no particular order) must be treated with caution: since I have not examined the diaries myself, the descriptors are only guesses based on bibliographies, anthologies and internet biographies. 4) For the biography and etext links, I have ignored any sites with charges, and I have avoided, wherever possible, those with pop-ups or too much advertising. I have limited myself to providing three etext links where there is some variety between them. 5) For the original manuscript links, I have limited myself to providing a maximum of two (although, for a few diarists, their original diaries are held in more than two places). 6) I have provided the titles - chosen randomly - for up to three printed editions of the diaries.

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