Strength in Weakness: Writings of Eighteenth-Century Quaker Women
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 brings together a rich array of letters, spiritual autobiographies, journals, and memoirs to put the lives and concerns of these women into context.
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Strength in Weakness: Writings of Eighteenth-Century Quaker Women
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 brings together a rich array of letters, spiritual autobiographies, journals, and memoirs to put the lives and concerns of these women into context.
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Strength in Weakness: Writings of Eighteenth-Century Quaker Women

Strength in Weakness: Writings of Eighteenth-Century Quaker Women

by Gil Skidmore
Strength in Weakness: Writings of Eighteenth-Century Quaker Women

Strength in Weakness: Writings of Eighteenth-Century Quaker Women

by Gil Skidmore

Overview

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 brings together a rich array of letters, spiritual autobiographies, journals, and memoirs to put the lives and concerns of these women into context.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780300165289
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 05/25/2010
Series: Sacred Literature Trust Series
Pages: 200
Product dimensions: 5.70(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Gil Skidmore has spent many years researching the lives and writings of early Quakers. Her publications include Elizabeth Fry: A Quaker Life (Yale University Press).

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