The Papers of William Penn, Volume 1: 1644-1679

by Mary Maples Dunn (Editor), Richard S. Dunn (Editor), Richard Alan Ryerson (Editor), Scott M. Wilds (Editor), Jean R. Soderlund (Editor)

Overview

This first volume, spanning the first thirty-five years of William Penn's life, from 1644 to 1679, documents his activities as a young Quaker activist.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780812278002
Publisher:	University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Publication date:	01/29/1981
Series:	Papers of William Penn
Pages:	720
Product dimensions:	6.80(w) x 9.70(h) x 1.70(d)

Editorial Reviews

"Superb is the only term of description for this first (of a projected set of five) volumes containing all the surviving manuscripts originating with William Penn. . . . One can now more fully understand this extraordinary man's character-impetuous, careless, and disorganized in personal and business affiars, tactless yet burningly sincere and indefatigable."

Journal of American Studies

"A monumental volume. . . . [The editors] have produced a kind of encyclopedia, not merely of Penn's life but of the age itself."

The Eighteenth Century

"Superb is the only term of description for this first (of a projected set of five) volumes containing all the surviving manuscripts originating with William Penn. . . . One can now more fully understand this extraordinary man's character—impetuous, careless, and disorganized in personal and business affiars, tactless yet burningly sincere and indefatigable."—Journal of American Studies

"A monumental volume. . . . [The editors] have produced a kind of encyclopedia, not merely of Penn's life but of the age itself."—The Eighteenth Century

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