Agnes Bulmer died on 21 June 1836, leaving a legacy as a leading Methodist poet and chronicler of early Methodist women's lives.
Agnes Bulmer died on 21 June 1836, bringing to a close a life devoted to religious poetry, hymn-writing, and the documentation of early Methodist spiritual experience, particularly that of women.
By the time of her death, Bulmer had established herself as one of the most respected Methodist literary figures of her era, best remembered for her lengthy devotional epic Messiah's Kingdom (1833) and her biographical work Memoirs of Mrs. Elizabeth Mortimer (1836), which preserved the life and correspondence of one of early Methodism's significant female preachers.
Her death marked the loss of a writer who had played an important role in shaping the literary and devotional culture of Methodism, particularly through her attention to the spiritual lives of women who might otherwise have been overlooked by the male-dominated religious historiography of the period. Her works continued to be read and referenced in subsequent Methodist literary and biographical collections, including later nineteenth-century compilations such as Eminent Methodist Women.
Her legacy endures primarily through her contributions to Methodist devotional literature and her role in preserving women's religious voices within a tradition that offered women limited formal avenues for religious leadership.