New Critical Studies on Early Quaker Women, 1650-1800

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.
Includes a Foreword by Elaine Hobby.

Michele Lise Tarter is a Professor of English at The College of New Jersey. She has published and presented extensively on early Quaker women's writing, Quaker pedagogy, and on Quaker texts and the expansion of the American literary canon. Her publications include Buried Lives: Incarcerated in Early America (co-edited with Richard Bell; University of Georgia Press, 2012).

Catie Gill is a Lecturer in Early Modern Writing at Loughborough University. She is the author of Women in the Quaker Community (Ashgate, 2005).

Introduction, Michele Lise Tarter and Catie Gill
Part I: Revolutions
1. Sarah Jones and the Appearance of the Quaker Light, Hilary Hinds
2. 'Harden not they Heart': 'Antinomian' Appeals to Rulers in Restoration England", Catie Gill
3. 'They have Souls to Save as well as we': White Quaker Women in the New World Slavery, 1650-1800, Stephen W. Angell
4. Written from the Body of Sisterhood: Transatlantic Quaker Women's Prophesying and the Creation of a New Word, Michele Lise Tarter
Part II: Disruptions
5. 'Stock Characters with Stiff-Brimmed Bonnets': Depictions of Quaker Women by Outsiders, c. 1650-1800, Erin Bell
6. She Suffered for my Sake': Female Martyrs and Lay Activists in Transatlantic Quakerism, 1650-1710, Naomi Pullin
7. In the Light and on the Road: Patience Brayton and the Quaker Itinerant Ministry, Sarah Crabtree
8. 'The Impudent Fellow Came in Swareing': Constructing and Defending Quaker Community in Elizabeth Drinker's Diary, Desiree Henderson
Part III: Networks
9. Copying Hannah Griffitts: Poetic Circulation and the Quaker Community of Scribes, Rebecca M. Rosen
10. Women and the Origins of Quakerism: Margaret Fell, Leader, Wife and the Mother of the New Jerusalem, Kristianna Polder
11. 'In the Days of Thy Youth': Eighteenth-Century Quaker Women and the Socialization of Children, Elizabeth Bouldin
12. Quaker Women in Lenape Country: Gender and Ethnicity on the West New Jersey Frontier, 1675-1725, Jean R. Soderlund
Afterword, Christine Trevett