Peculiar Power

A Quaker Woman Preacher In Eighteenth-century America

BY CRISTINE LEVENDUSKI

Brief Description:
Elizabeth Ashbridge (1713-1755) wrote "Remarkable Experiences". In it she recorded her religious search but also told of the highly unusual events that had shaped her life: eloping at 14, being kidnapped, preventing a shipboard mutiny, enduring a harsh term of indentured servitude, and suffering relentless religious persecution. Her experiences as an English immigrant, a servant, an itinerant, a Quaker, and a woman placed her far outside the colonial cultural mainstream, but drawing power from her marginalized position she became in her thirties a respected leader among Quakers, thereby breaking the "suffer and be still" silence imposed on 18C women.

Smithsonian 1996 171 PP. Cloth

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