"Very few men and even fewer women have the opportunity or feel the need, to found a church of their own. Selina, Countess of Huntingdon, the subject of this book, is exceptional in doing just that. By the time she died, aged 83, in 1791, she had established a separate 'connexion' bearing her name, and consisting of more than sixty congregations. Her church had its own ordained ministry, its own ministerial training college, and its own statement of theological belief. In her lifetime, she made a distinctive contribution to the eighteenth-century Evangelical Revival in Britain. The Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion represents a small but important element in British nonconformity at the start of the nineteenth century. Even at the beginning of the twenty-first century there are still congregations bearing the Countess of Huntingdon's name." "In this book, Alan Harding offers an accessible biography of Selina, Countess of Huntingdon and considers her significance in the wider context of eighteenth-century British church history.

"--BOOK JACKET.