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1971 Autographed Copy with Dust Jacket of: Stange Fires The True story of John Wesley's love affair in Georgia. Written by Willie Snow Ethridge Book is in Excellent Condition with some wear on Dust Jacket Willie Snow Ethridge's Strange Fires is a biography about the Methodist co-founder John Wesley's passionate and turbulent love affair with Sophia Hopkey, an eighteen-year-old girl, during his missionary work in colonial Georgia in 1736; this relationship ultimately strained his reputation within both the church and the colony. Wesley recorded all this in his journal/Diary which was written in code, it was so dificult to decipher that is was only broken in this Century. The True Story of John Wesley's Love Affair in Georgia center on the scandalous and reputation-tarnishing romance. The book focuses on this dramatic relationship and the controversy it created for Wesley and the church.