Includes bibliographical references and index.

Thecla and early martyrs, monastics, and saints -- Hilda of Whitby and medieval nuns and abbesses -- Hildegard of Bingen and Catholic mystics and scholars -- Katherine Schütz Zell and Protestant reformers -- Theresa of Ávila and sectarian "heretics" -- Susanna Wesley and eighteenth-century evangelists -- Narcissa Prentiss Whitman and American protestant missionaries -- Jarena Lee and African American evangelists -- Elizabeth "Betsy" Fry and women of the social gospel -- Anne-Marie Javouhey and British and European missionaries -- Harriet Beecher Stowe and nineteenth-century poets and writers -- Susannah Thompson Spurgeon and ministers' wives -- Aimee Semple McPherson and pentecostal preachers -- Corrie ten Boom and celebrated speakers and missionaries.