Women In The Seventeenth-century Quaker Community

A Literary Study Of Political Identities, 1650-1700

BY CATIE GILL

Brief Description:
Starts with an introduction to Quakerism in the 1650s. then accounts of their sufferings and petitions., followed by a discussion of post-Restoration Quaker writing. Gill shows that of nearly 4,000 Quaker texts published between 1650 and 1699, 220 were authored by women, and one-fifth of all women publishing in seventeenth-century England were Quakers when women authors overall amounted to only one percent of the total. Especially helpful to other scholars will be the extensive bibliography of Quaker publications, with cross-referencing for each contributor to collectively authored texts and notations about signers of petitions.

Ashgate 2002 256 PP. Cloth

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