Available in a 1992 facsimile by The Methodist Publishing House. It was edited by John A. Vickers, who added an Editorial Note identifying Zachariah Taft (1772-1848) as an itinerant Wesleyan who continued to advocate women's preaching, including that of his wife Mary Barritt, even when it lost its official sanction. Taft's preface to volume one indicates that he wants to preserve records that have been suppressed because most "Biographers and Editors of Magazines, are enemies to female preaching" (ii). According to Taft, John Wesley "knew that it made no difference whether the servant of God...was male or female" (iii). "From the pages of History, we learn that women have moved in the most exalted spheres, and chived the most astonishing exploits" (vi), as Taft goes on to illustrate, citing various divines. He has introduced some examples of the living. The biographies include correspondence, and may reproduce a journal (e.g. Mary Holder's pp. 101-26). End of vol. 1 lists errata; lists other books by Taft, and the facsimile edition adds an appendix noting Taft's own annotations for a planned second edition. Vol. 2 begins with frontispiece portrait of Taft, another preface arguing for women's preaching ("no female preaches for hire" but all must overcome resistance (ix-x). He notes the "favourable reception of the first volume" (xiv), and reprints at the beginning some of the verse communications he received in response (xvi-xxi). Chapters may begin with the name as the first words of a first sentence, and/or they may have a parenthetical statement about the name in italics below the title name, e.g. Miss Sarah Eland. (Now Mrs. De Putron.)