Praise for Margaret Hope Bacon’s Mothers of Feminism:

“A thorough and thought-provoking account of the impact that Quaker women and Quaker attitudes about women have had on American society…. Like her subjects, Mrs. Bacon speaks with quiet authority and resonance. She takes what might haven a dull and complicated chronology and infuses it whgrace and energy… An important and provocative book.”
— New York Times

“There has long ben a need for a comprehensive new historical study on Quaker women and the contributions of the Society of Friends to American feminism. Margaret Hope Bacon’s work… well fulfills that need.”
— Rosemary Radford Ruether, author of Sexism and God-Talk and Women-Church

“Nothing is more liberating that thdiscover of our own history. Margaret Hope Bacon has contributed brilliantly to the process of human freedom and responsibility by telling the story of Quaker women in America.”
— Virginia R. Rollenkott, author of The Divine Feminine: Biblical Imagery of God as Female

Margaret Hope Bacon is the author of numerous books of Quaker biography, and history, including Valiant Friend: The Life of Lucretia Mott, The Quiet Rebels: The Story of Quakers in America, Lamb’s Warrior: The Life of Isaac T. Hooper, I Speak for My Sister, One Woman’s Passion for Peace and Freedom: The Life of Mildred Scott Olmstead, Rebellion at Christiana, Let This Life Speak: The Legacy of Henry Joel Cadbury, and Wilt Thou Go On My Errand? Three 18th Century Journals of Quaker Women Ministers. She has written and lectured extensively on the role of Quaker women. In 1984 she retired after twenty-two years in the Information Services Department of the American Friends Service Committee. She and her husband, Allen Bacon, alternate between Philadelphia in the winter and Maine in the summer. They have three children and four grandchildren.