Agnes Bulmer, née Collinson, was born on 31 March 1767 in London, later becoming a prominent Methodist poet and writer.
Agnes Bulmer (born Agnes Collinson) was born on 31 March 1767 in London, England, into a devout Methodist family that had close personal ties to John Wesley, the founder of Methodism. Her upbringing was steeped in the evangelical revival that was reshaping British Protestant Christianity in the eighteenth century.
Raised in this environment, Agnes was exposed from an early age to religious literature, hymnody, and the culture of spiritual autobiography and devotional writing that characterized early Methodism. This early immersion would prove formative to her later career as one of the most notable Methodist women writers of her generation.
Her birth into a well-connected Methodist family gave her access to education and literary circles that were often closed to women of lesser means, and it set the stage for a life dedicated to religious literature, poetry, and the biographical preservation of early Methodist women's spiritual lives. She would go on to become best known for her epic religious poem Messiah's Kingdom and her biographical Memoirs of Mrs. Elizabeth Mortimer.