women’s missionary (See MISSIONARY MOVEMENT, WOMEN’S) and benevolent organizations, both in local parishes and nationally. Some, like Lydia Finney, wife of evangelist Charles G. Finney, used the position to establish independent careers. Many women, however, found parsonage life full of unsung sacrifices. As unsalaried martyrs to the whims of the congregation, or as the lonely wives of Methodist itinerants, they endured the burden of traditionalism, in which the minister’s wife received personal