The Evangelical movement began as a product of the Enlightenment, a revival that drew on Puritanism, Pietism, and Protestantism in a renewed emphasis on the roles of conversion, activism, Christ’s crucifixion, and biblical authority in the life of the Christian. The pioneers of the movement engaged closely with and attentively to science, nature, and the arts. The high value placed on the individual and the felt experience of salvation in particular reflected the Enlightenment ethos. John Wesley, his “Holy Club,” dramatic conversion, and the eventual break of the Methodist movement Wesley started exemplify in significant ways the story of evangelicalism, as do the many women within the movement who wrote, spoke, taught, exhorted, and sometimes preached. Women writers Hannah More and Maria Grace Saffery, in particular, reflect Evangelicalism’s movement from the Enlightenment worldview of the earlier eighteenth century to the Romantic worldview. They and other poets and later Evangelicals came more closely to reflect the aesthetic sensibilities of Romanticism. Evangelicals combined Enlightenment values with Romantic notions—such as liberty, subjectivity, and agency—in ways that profoundly shaped the reform movements of the nineteenth century. The Evangelical emphasis on activism gave rise to numerous missionary societies, publications, educational efforts, and attempts at social reform, including the abolition of the slave trade.