]2)From S Kaye-Smith and GB Stern's Speaking of Jane Austen

"We know that the novel (MP) was written after a silent interval of some years, which the author had spent mainly in Bath, where she would have had plenty of opportunty for hearing some of the great Evangelical preachers."

I've tried and failed to find anything on Evangelical preachers in Bath in JA's time, but I wonder whether JA would have heard them preach anyway?

What class of society was attracted to evangelism at the time, and where did they preach? I'm possibly associating them too much with Wesleyanism, with it's great open air meetings of common people.
Honan is the only book I have that mentions it and he states that evangelism appealed to the Bath bourgeois, which I take to mean tradesman rather than the lower gentry such as JA.
Her father's religious views were not evangelical, and I would imagine he had some influence over her in religious matters.

JA's comment that everyone ought to be evangelical was made 10 years after she left Bath, I assumed she meant it in jest or in the way that you can admire someone but not really wish to emulate them.
To tie MP and Bath evangelism together seems rather a long bow to draw; MP was written several years after she left Bath.