Untwisting the Tangled Web: Charles Wesley and Elizabeth Story

RANDY L. MADDOX is the William Kellon Quick Professor of Wesleyan and Methodist Studies at the Divinity School, Duke University. He is author of Responsible Grace: John Wesley's Practical Theology, a contributor to Wesley and the Quadrilateral, and editor of Aldersgate Reconsidered, Rethinking Wesley's Theology for Contemporary Methodism, The Cambridge Companion to John Wesley, and Volume 12 of the Bicentennial Edition of The Works of John Wesley.

TIMOTHY UNDERHILL is Assessment Manager for English at Cambridge University's international assessment department. His doctoral thesis was on John Byrom and he has published a number of articles on Byrom's life, writing, and shorthand. He has deciphered shorthand materials to inform texts of Charles Wesley's verse published online by Duke Divinity School's Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, and also for the Oxford University Press edition of Charles Wesley's Letters (ed. Kenneth G. C. Newport and Gareth Lloyd). He is working on an edition and fuller biographical study of Byrom and his circle.