A Haunting at the Rectory
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1h 14m
This talk will explore the story of a ghost that tormented the Wesley family of Epworth in the winter of 1716-17 in Lincolnshire. Our speaker, Sasha Handley will look at how the Wesley women used this episode to protest against years of deprivation and mistreatment at the hands of their father, as well as considering the place of the haunting in Methodism’s early history.
*About our speaker*
Sasha Handley is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Manchester. She specialises in early modern social and cultural history in the British Isles, with a particular interest in histories of everyday healthcare (especially sleep practices), material culture, supernatural belief (especially relating to women's histories) and the history of emotions. She is the author of two books: ‘Visions of an Unseen World: Ghost Beliefs and Ghost Stories in Eighteenth-Century England’ (Pickering & Chatto, 2007) and ‘Sleep in Early Modern England’ (Yale University Press, 2016).
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