Quaker Women

Author : Rebecca Larson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9780807848975
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daughters of Light written by Rebecca Larson and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2000-09-01 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than a thousand Quaker female ministers were active in the Anglo-American world before the Revolutionary War, when the Society of Friends constituted the colonies' third-largest religious group. Some of these women circulated throughout British North

Author : Sandra Stanley Holton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135141177
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quaker Women written by Sandra Stanley Holton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One nineteenth-century commentator noted the ‘public’ character of Quaker women as signalling a new era in female history. This study examines such claims through the story of middle-class women Friends from among the kinship circle created by the marriage in 1839 of Elizabeth Priestman and the future radical Quaker statesman, John Bright. The lives discussed here cover a period from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, and include several women Friends active in radical politics and the women’s movement, in the service of which they were able to mobilise extensive national and international networks. They also created and preserved a substantial archive of private papers, comprising letters and diaries full of humour and darkness, the spiritual and the mundane, family confidences and public debate, the daily round and affairs of state. The discovery of such a collection makes it possible to examine the relationship between the personal and public lives of these women Friends, explored through a number of topics including the nature of Quaker domestic and church cultures; the significance of kinship and church membership for the building of extensive Quaker networks; the relationship between Quaker religious values and women’s participation in civil society and radical politics and the women’s rights movement. There are also fresh perspectives on the political career of John Bright, provided by his fond but frank women kin. This new study is a must read for all those interested in the history of women, religion and politics.

Author : Michele Lise Tarter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192545329
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Critical Studies on Early Quaker Women, 1650-1800 written by Michele Lise Tarter and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Critical Studies on Early Quaker Women, 1650—1800 takes a fresh look at archival and printed sources from England and America, elucidating why women were instrumental to the Quaker movement from its inception to its establishment as a transatlantic religious body. This authoritative volume, the first collection to focus entirely on the contributions of women, is a landmark study of their distinctive religious and gendered identities. The chapters connect three richly woven threads of Quaker women's lives—Revolutions, Disruptions and Networks—by tying gendered experience to ruptures in religion across this radical, volatile period of history.

Author : Teresa Feroli
Publisher : Iter Press
ISBN 13 : 9780866985840
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Witness, Warning, and Prophecy written by Teresa Feroli and published by Iter Press. This book was released on 2018-01-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The forty texts collected in this volume offer a small but representative sample of Quaker women’s tremendous literary output between 1655 and 1700. They include examples of key Quaker literary genres — proclamations, directives, warnings, sufferings, testimonies, polemic, pleas for toleration — and showcase a range of literary styles and voices, from eloquent poetry to legal analyses of English canon and civil law. In their varied responses to the core Quaker belief in the indwelling Spirit, these women left a rich literary legacy of an early countercultural movement. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe - The Toronto Series: Volume 60

Author : Mabel Richmond Brailsford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quaker Women, 1650-1690 written by Mabel Richmond Brailsford and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mary Garman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hidden in Plain Sight written by Mary Garman and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These tracts proclaim an experience of God that rocked the social order of seventeeth-century England. The Quaker women's voices add new language to the power of God's movement in our lives.

Author : Mabel Richmond Brailsford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quaker Women, 1650-1690 written by Mabel Richmond Brailsford and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gil Skidmore
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 9780759105218
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strength in Weakness written by Gil Skidmore and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2003 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quaker women in the eighteenth century were carrying on the faith and activity of their seventeenth-century forebears, but as a group their lives and writings have been neglected in modern times by both Quaker and other historians. Gil Skidmore brings together a rich array of letters, spiritual autobiographies, journals, and memoirs to put the lives and concerns of these women into context.

Author : Catie Gill
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135187196X
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women in the Seventeenth-Century Quaker Community written by Catie Gill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focussing on Quaker pamphlet literature of the commonwealth and restoration period, Catie Gill seeks to explore and explain women’s presence as activists, writers, and subjects within the early Quaker movement. Women in the Seventeenth-Century Quaker Community draws on contemporary resources such as prophetic writing, prison narratives, petitions, and deathbed testimonies to produce an account of women’s involvement in the shaping of this religious movement. The book reveals that, far from being of marginal importance, women were able to exploit the terms in which Quaker identity was constructed to create roles for themselves, in public and in print, that emphasised their engagement with Friends’ religious and political agenda. Gill’s evidence suggests that women were able to mobilise contemporary notions of femininity when pursuing active roles as prophets, martyrs, mothers, and political activists. The book’s focus on collective, Quaker identities, which arises from its analysis of multiple-authored texts, is key to its claims that gender issues have to be considered when analysing the sect’s emergent system of values, and Gill assesses the representation of women in male-authored texts in addition to female writers’ attitudes to agency. A bibliography that, for the first time, lists men and women’s involvement as contributors as well as authors to Quaker pamphlets provides a valuable resource for scholars of seventeenth-century radicalism.

Author : Lisa Samson
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 1418568139
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quaker Summer written by Lisa Samson and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2008-04-08 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes you have to go a little bit crazy to discover the life you were meant to live. Heather Curridge is coming unhinged. And people are starting to notice. What's wrong with a woman who has everything--a mansion on a lake, a loving son, a heart-surgeon husband--yet still feels miserable inside? When Heather spends the summer with two ancient Quaker sisters and a crusty nun running a downtown homeless shelter, she finds herself at a crossroads. Life turns upside down for Heather in a Quaker Summer. “One of the most powerful voices in Christian fiction, Samson delivers ...a staggering examination of the Christian conscience.” –Publishers Weekly