Susanna Wesley's Apron

Susanna Wesley raised nineteen children in a cramped Epworth rectory in early eighteenth-century England. The woman never lacked for Martha's kind of work. There were meals to stretch on a clergyman's meager salary, lessons to prepare for each child's homeschool education, linens to wash, fires to tend. Her husband Samuel was often away in London, leaving her to manage the household alone.…