Strength in Weakness: Writings of Eighteenth-century Quaker WomenGil Skidmore Rowman Altamira, 2003 - 187 páginas 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 has written an introduction to the lives and times, bringing together a rich array of letters, spiritual autobiographies, journals and memoirs. In her introduction, she puts the lives and concerns of these women into context and gives detailed biographies of each author. She shows the links that existed between them personally and the diffeences int heir thought, expression and experience. In broader terms, she illustrates how the writings of these women are relevant to the development of Quakerism up to the present. Gil Skidmore has chosen eight outstanding women whose writings she thinks are particularly poignant as well as relevant today: Grace Hall Chamber, Lydia Rawlinson Lancaster, Ruth Alcock Follows, Catheirne Payton Phillips, Sarah Tuke Grubb, Priscilla Hannah Gurney, Mary Alexander and Ann Crowley. |
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... brought them into close contact with " the world " , who were much laxer in their observance of these rules . Their contemporaries called them " gay Quakers " and for those brought up in this way , like Priscilla Hannah Gurney and later ...
... brought them into close contact with " the world " , who were much laxer in their observance of these rules . Their contemporaries called them " gay Quakers " and for those brought up in this way , like Priscilla Hannah Gurney and later ...
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... brought considerable anger and persecution down upon Friends . Parents , used to being addressed respectfully by their children , sometimes reacted strongly to being called " thou " . One upper - class convert to Quak- erism , Thomas ...
... brought considerable anger and persecution down upon Friends . Parents , used to being addressed respectfully by their children , sometimes reacted strongly to being called " thou " . One upper - class convert to Quak- erism , Thomas ...
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... brought up as Friends to find the reality of their faith for themselves and to become not just birthright Friends but convinced Friends . The phrase often used in the eighteenth century was that they needed to find " the power , not the ...
... brought up as Friends to find the reality of their faith for themselves and to become not just birthright Friends but convinced Friends . The phrase often used in the eighteenth century was that they needed to find " the power , not the ...
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... brought up in the Church of England and became a convinced Quaker in 1736 at the age of 22 with the approval of her family but after some years of vigorous opposition . She became a minister and began to travel very soon afterwards when ...
... brought up in the Church of England and became a convinced Quaker in 1736 at the age of 22 with the approval of her family but after some years of vigorous opposition . She became a minister and began to travel very soon afterwards when ...
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... brought up in Philadelphia in the established church but drawn to Quakers against the opposition of her widowed mother . Rebecca would sneak off to meeting with the neighbourhood children even when in desperation her mother tried to ...
... brought up in Philadelphia in the established church but drawn to Quakers against the opposition of her widowed mother . Rebecca would sneak off to meeting with the neighbourhood children even when in desperation her mother tried to ...
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Grace Hall Chamber | 25 |
Lydia Rawlinson Lancaster | 33 |
Ruth Alcock Follows | 46 |
Catherine Payton Phillips | 61 |
Sarah Tuke Grubb | 82 |
Priscilla Hannah Gurney | 101 |
Mary Alexander | 122 |
Ann Crowley | 138 |
Some brief biographies | 172 |
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Strength in Weakness: Writings of Eighteenth-century Quaker Women Gil Skidmore Vista de fragmentos - 2003 |
Strength in Weakness: Writings of Eighteenth-century Quaker Women Gil Skidmore Vista de fragmentos - 2003 |
Strength in Weakness: Writings of Eighteenth-Century Quaker Women Gil Skidmore Sin vista previa disponible - 2010 |
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