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The following is a list of sources in the public domain included in the bibliographies of reference works relating to the topic of Methodism. Where possible, the works are listed according to the name of the individual article to which they are a reference. Otherwise, the works are listed according to the organization in the volume in question.

Historical Dictionary of Methodism

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Historical dictionary of Methodism, edited by Charles Yrigoyen, Jr. and Susan E. Warrick, Scarecrow, 2005, 2nd ed., ISBN 9780810854512

General Reference Works

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Bibliographies

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  • Cyclopaedia of Methodism, ed. George Cornish;

Encyclopedias

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  • Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature, ed. John McClintock and James Strong;
  • Cyclopedia of Methodism, by Matthew Simpson;

General Histories

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Great Britain and Ireland

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  • Memorials of Free Methodism, by Matthew Baxter;
  • The Bible Christians, by Frederick W. Bourne;
  • A History of Methodism in Ireland, by C. H. Crookshank;
  • Calvinistic Methodist Holy Orders, by David E. Jenkins;
  • The Origin and History of the Primitive Methodist Church, by H. B. Kendall;
  • Historic Sketches of Free Methodism, by Joseph Kirsop;
  • A History of the Primitive Methodist Connexion from its Origins to the Conference of 1860, by John Petty;
  • The Centenary of the Methodist New Connexion, 1797-1897, ed. George Packer;

North America

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Canada
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  • Church Union in Canada: Its History, Motives, Doctrine, and Government, by E. Lloyd Morrow;
  • The History of Methodism in Canada, by George F. Playter;
  • Canadian Methodism: its Epochs and Characteristics, by Egerton Ryerson;
  • The First Century of Methodism in Canada, by Joseph E. Sanderson;
United States
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  • A History of the Primitive Methodist Church in the United States of America, by John H. Acornley;
  • History of Methodist Reform, Synoptical of General Methodism 1703-1789, with special and comprehensive reference to its most salient exhibition in the History of the Methodist Protestant Church, by Edward J. Drinkhouse;
  • A Short History of the Methodists, by Jesse Lee;

Asia/Australasia

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  • The Illustrated History of Methodism: Australia, New South Wales, and Polynesia, by James Colwell;
  • The History of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society, vol. III, ed. G. G. Findlay and W. W. Holdsworth;
  • The History of Methodism in New Zealand, by William Morley;

Europe

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  • The History of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society, vol. IV, ed. G. G. Findlay and W. W. Holdsworth;

Biographies and Autobiographies

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Richard Allen

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  • The Life Experiences and Gospel Labors of the Right Revered Richard Allen, by Richard Allen;

James O. Andrew

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  • The Life and Letters of James Osgood Andrew, by James O. Andrew;

Nathan Bangs

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  • Life and Times of Nathan Bangs, D. D., by Abel Stevens;

William Black

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  • William Black: The Apostle of Methodism in the Maritime Provinces of Canada, by John Maclean;

Richard Boardman

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  • The Western Pioneers, or, Memorials of the Lives and Labors of Richard Boardman and Joseph Pilmoore, by John Prior Lockwood;

Henry Boehm

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  • The Patriarch of One Hundred Years, Being Reminiscences, Historical and Biographical of Rev. Henry Boehm, ed. J. B. Wakeley;

Peter Bohler

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  • Memorials of the Life of Peter Bohler, by John Prior Lockwood;

Catherine Booth

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  • The Life of Catharine Booth: The Mother of the Salvation Army, by Frederick de L. Booth Tucker;

Phineas Bresee

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  • Phineas F. Bresee, A Prince in Israel: A Biography, by E. A. Girvin;

George Brown

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  • Recollections of Itinerant Life: Including Early Reminiscences, by George Brown;

James Monroe Buckley

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  • James Monroe Buckley, by George Preston Mains;

Jabez Bunting

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  • The Life of Jabez Bunting DD, by Thomas P. Bunting and G. Stringer Rowe;
  • Jabez Bunting, a great Methodist leader, by James H. Rigg;

William Butler

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  • William Butler, the Founder of Two Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church, by Clementina Butler;

William Capers

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  • Life of William Capers, by William M. Wightman;

William Case

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  • Case and His Contemporaries: or, the Canadian Itinerants' Memorial, by John

Carroll;

Adam Clarke

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  • An Account of the Infancy, Religious, and Literary Life of Adam Clarke, by Adam Clarke;
  • The Life and Labours of Adam Clarke, LL.D., by John Middleton Hare;

William Clowes

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  • The Life of the Venerable William Clowes, by William Garner;

Ezekiel Cooper

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  • Beams of Light on Early Methodism in America; Chiefly drawn from the diary, letters, manuscripts, documents, and original tracts of the Rev. Ezekiel Cooper, by George A. Phoebus;

Melville Cox

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  • Remains of Melville B. Cox, Late Missionary to Liberia, by Melville Cox;

Fanny Crosby

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  • Fanny Crosby's Story of Ninety-four Years, retold by S. Trevana Jackson, by Fanny Crosby;

John Dickins

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  • A Funeral Discourse on the Death of that Eminent Man, the Late Reverend John Dickins, by Ezekiel Cooper;

Lorenzo Dow and Peggy Dow

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  • Vicissitudes in the Wilderness; Exemplified, in the Journal of Peggy Dow, by Peggy Dow;
  • The Life, Travels, Labors, and Writings of Lorenzo Dow, by Lorenzo Dow;

John Emory

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  • The Life of the Rev. John Emory, D.D., by Robert Emory;

Wilbur Fisk

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  • Travels on the Continent of Europe, by Wilbur Fisk;

Mary Porter Gamewell

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  • China Old and New, by Mary Porter Gamewell;
  • Mary Porter Gamewell and Her Story of the Siege in Peking, by A. H. Tuttle;

Philip Gatch

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  • Sketch of Rev. Philip Gatch/prepared by John McLean, by Philip Gatch;

Enoch George

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  • The Life of Rev. Enoch George, by Benjamin St. James Fry;

L. L. Hamline

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  • Life and Letters of Leonidas L. Hamline, by Walter Clarke Palmer;

John Hannah

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  • A Man Greatly Beloved: A Sermon Preached . . . on the Occasion of the Death of Dr. Hannah, by James Dixon;

Laura Askew Haygood

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  • Life and Letters of Laura Askew Haygood, ed. Oswald Eugene Brown and Anna Muse Brown;

Elijah Hedding

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  • Life and Times of Rev. Elijah Hedding,by D. W. Clark;

Hugh Price Hughes

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  • The Life of Hugh Price Hughes, by Dorothea Price Hughes;
  • Hugh Price Hughes, Pioneer and Reformer, by Arthur Walters;

John Inskip and Martha Inskip

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  • The Life of Rev. John S. Inskip, by William McDonald and John E. Searles;

Daniel Kidder

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  • Sketches of Residence and Travels in Brazil, by Daniel P. Kidder;
  • Biography of the Rev. Daniel Parish Kidder, by G. E. Strobridge;

Alexander Kilham

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  • The Life of the Rev. Alexander Kilham, by John Blackwell;

Walter Lambuth

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  • Walter Russell Lambuth: Prophet and Pioneer, by William W. Pinson;

Isaac Lane

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  • Autobiography of Bishop Isaac Lane, LL.D., by Isaac Lane;

Jesse Lee

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  • Memoir of the Rev. Jesse Lee, with Extracts from His Journals, by Jesse Lee, ed. Minton Thrift;

Luther Lee

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  • Autobiography of the Rev. Luther Lee, by Luther Lee.

John McClintock, Jr.

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  • Life and Letters of the Rev. John M'Clintock, by George R. Crooks;

William McKendree

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  • The Life of Reverend William McKendree, by Benjamin St. James Fry;
  • Life and Times of William McKendree, by Robert Paine;

William O'Bryan

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  • William O'Bryan, Founder of the Bible Christians: the man and his work, by S. L. Thorne;

James O'Kelly

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  • The Life of Rev. James O'Kelly and the Early History of the Christian Church in the South, by Wilbur E. MacClenny;

Anna Oliver

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  • Test Case on the Ordination of Women, by Anna Oliver;

Phoebe Palmer

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  • The Life and Letters of Mrs. Phoebe Palmer, by Richard Wheatley;

Sarah Lankford Palmer

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  • The Life of Mrs. Sarah A. Lankford Palmer, by John A. Roche;

Daniel Payne

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  • Recollections of Seventy Years, by Daniel Alexander Payne;

W. B. Pope

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  • The Rev. W. B. Pope, D.D., Theologian and Saint, by R. Waddy Moss;

W. Morley Punshon

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  • William Morley Punshon, the orator of Methodism, by Joseph Dawson;
  • The Life of William Morley Punshon, by F. W. Macdonald;
  • The Rev. W. M. Punshon, by Thomas McCullagh;

James H. Rigg

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  • James Harrison Rigg, by John Telford;

B. T. Roberts

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  • Benjamin Titus Roberts: A Biography, by Benson Howard Roberts;

Martin Ruter

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  • Martin Ruter, by Ernest Ashton Smith;

Adolphus Egerton Ryerson

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  • ”The Story of My Life”, by Adolphus Egerton Ryerson;

Ira Sankey

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  • My Life and the Story of the Gospel Hymns and of Sacred Songs and Solos, by Ira David Sankey;

Orange Scott

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  • The Life of Rev. Orange Scott, by Lucius C. Matlack;

John Seybert

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  • The Life and Labors of John Seybert, by Samuel Peter Spreng;

Anna Howard Shaw

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  • The Story of a Pioneer, by Anna H. Shaw;

Asa Shinn

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  • Discourse on the Life and Death of the Rev. Asa Shinn, by C. Cooke;

Joshua Soule

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  • Life of Joshua Soule, by Horace M. DuBose;

John Springer and Helen Springer

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  • Pioneering in the Congo, by John Springer;

Thomas Bowman Stephenson

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  • The Life of Thomas Bowman Stephenson, by William Bradfield;

William Stephenson

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  • William Stephenson: Riding Preacher, by Walter N. Vernon

Clara Swain

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  • A Glimpse of India, being a Collection of Extracts from the Letters of Dr. Clara A. Swain, First Medical Missionary to India of the Women's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church in America, by Clara A. Swain;

William Taylor

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  • Story of My Life, by William Taylor;

Isalbella Thoburn

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  • Life of Isabella Thoburn, by James M. Thoburn;

James M. Thoburn

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  • Thoburn―Called of God, by W. F. Oldham;
  • My Missionary Apprenticeship, by J. M. Thoburn;

Harriet Tubman

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  • Harriet Tubman, the Moses of Her People, by Sarah Hopkins Bradford;

Margaret Newton Van Cott

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  • Life and Labors of Mrs. Maggie Newton Van Cott, by John O. Foster;

James Varick

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  • The Varick Family, by B. F. Wheeler;

John H. Vincent

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  • John Heyl Vincent: A Biographical Sketch, by Leon H. Vincent;

Thomas Ware

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  • Sketches of the Life and Travels of Rev. Thomas Ware, who has been an Itinerant Methodist Preacher for more than Fifty Years, by Thomas Ware;

Richard Whatcoat

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  • The Life of Rev. Richard Whatcoat, by Benjamin St. James Fry;

George Whitefield

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  • An Authentic Memoir of the Life of the Late Rev. George Whitefield, by George Whitefield;

Frances Willard

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  • Glimpses of Fifty Years: The Autobiography of an American Woman, by Frances Willard;

Topical Studies

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Missions

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  • The Story of the Women's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1869-1895, by Frances J. Baker;

Theology and Doctrine

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John and Charles Wesley

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Basic Texts
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  • The Journal of the Rev. John Wesley, ed. Nehemiah Curnock;
  • The Works of John Wesley, ed. Thomas Jackson;
  • Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, ed. George Osborn;
  • Hymns for our Lord's Resurrection, by Charles Wesley;
  • Hymns for the Nativity of Our Lord, by Charles Wesley;
  • Hymns on the Great Festivals and Other Occasions, by Charles Wesley;
  • Hymns on the Trinity, by Charles Wesley;
  • Hymns for Ascension-Day and Hymns for Whitsunday, by Charles Wesley and John Wesley;
  • Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament, by John Wesley;
  • Primitive Physick: Or an Easy and Natural Method of Curing Most Diseases, by John Wesley;
  • The Sunday Service of the Methodists of North America, by John Wesley;
  • Hymns on the Lord's Supper, by John Wesley and Charles Wesley;
Life and Thought
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  • Pietism and Methodism, by Alfred W. Nagler;
  • John Wesley and the Advance of Methodism, by John Smith Simon;
  • John Wesley and the Methodist Societies, by John Smith Simon;
  • John Wesley and the Religious Societies, by John Smith Simon;
  • The Life of Wesley and the Rise and Progress of Methodism, by Robert Southey;
  • Life and Times of the Rev. John Wesley, Founder of the Methodists, by Luke Tyerman;
Representative Methodist Theologians
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  • The Tongue of Fire, or, The True Power of Christianity, by William Arthur;
  • The Errors of Hoskinsianism Detected and Exposed, by Nathan Bangs;
  • A Manual of Christian Doctrine, by John A. Banks;
  • Personalism, by Borden P. Bowne;
  • Modernism and the Christian Faith, by John A. Faulkner;
  • Calvinistic Controversy, by Wilbur Fisk;
  • Works, by John W. Fletcher;
  • Nature and Blessedness of Christian Purity, by Randolph S. Foster;
  • Philosophy of Christian Experience, by Randolph S. Foster;
  • Systematic Theology, by Solomon J. Gamertsfelder;
  • The Christ of the Indian Road, by E. Stanley Jones;
  • Elements of Theology; or, An Exposition of the Divine Origin, Doctrine, Morals, and Institutions of Christianity, by Luther Lee;
  • Systematic Theology, by John Miley;
  • The Christian Faith, by Curtis A. Olin;
  • The Way of Holiness, by Phoebe Palmer;
  • What We Believe: Studies in Christian Doctrine, by Franklin N. Parker;
  • A Compendium of Christian Theology, by William B. Pope;
  • Systematic Theology, by Miner Raymond;
  • The Higher Criticism; an Outline of Modern Biblical Study, by Charles W. Rishell;
  • Why Another Sect..., by Benjamin Titus Roberts;
  • System of Christian Doctrine, by Henry C. Sheldon;
  • Elements of Divinity: A Series of Lectures on Biblical Science, Theology, Church History & Homiletics, Designed for Candidates for the Ministry, and other Students of the Bible, by George Smith;
  • A Defense of Christian Perfection, by Daniel Steele;
  • Systematic Theology, by Thomas O. Summers;
  • Biblical Dogmatics, by Milton S. Terry;
  • Theological Institutes, by Richard Watson;
  • The Freedom of the Will as the Basis of Human Responsibility and a Divine Government, by Daniel D. Whedon;

Worship, the Sacraments, and Hymnody

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  • A Collection of Hymns and Spiritual Songs, by Richard Allen;

Church organization

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  • History of the Revisions of the Discipline of the Methodist Episcopal Church, by David Sherman;
  • Constitutional History of American Episcopal Methodism, by John J. Tigert;