ABSTRACT
In 1858 Wesleyan women formed their own organization and began sending and supporting single women; a further source of personnel appeared with the creation of a Deaconess order at the end of the century. In later years an unsurprisingly high number of single women missionaries sooner or later became missionary wives. In 1821 a Bristol woman sent 26 to the Mission House, urging the formation of a Female Association to help poor infatuated females in India. In India, Ceylon and China the Committee took responsibility for recruits who were known as Bible women. The other branches of the Methodist family formed women's units as well. In 1907 three of them were brought together as the Women's Missionary Auxiliary of the United Methodist Church (UMC). In 1899 the Methodist New Connexion (MNC) in turn established its Women's Auxiliary. In 1907 the Primitive Methodist missionary secretaries called for a Women's Missionary Federation to be founded.
