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Autobiographical Writings by Early Quaker Women (Hardcover, New edition)
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Autobiographical Writings by Early Quaker Women (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: The Early Modern Englishwoman, 1500-1750: Contemporary Editions
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While writings by early modern Quaker women have been discussed and
quoted fairly extensively, relatively few of their texts are
readily or widely available. The chief purpose of this edition is
to rectify this state of affairs in one central area - that of
autobiographical writing. The edition contains substantial excerpts
from a range of self-writings by Quaker women, composed between the
1650s and circa 1710: letters, testimonies, memoirs, accounts of
spiritual development, narratives of persecution and imprisonment.
Six of the texts have been freshly edited from manuscripts
(including Mary Penington's A Brief Account); the others have been
transcribed from the first printed editions. In his general
introduction to the volume, the editor sketches the history of the
Quaker movement from the 1650s to the early 1700s, and considers
the role of female Quakers during the first and second phases of
the movement. The introduction also surveys the types and purposes
of autobiographical writings produced by female Friends, and
relates these writings to key Quaker ideas, concerns and practices
regarding the inner light, scripture, testimony, plain speaking,
friendship, gender and community. Booy indicates the wider context
of the development of autobiographical writing during the
seventeenth century, and discusses briefly issues to do with the
construction of the self in writing. Each text is prefaced by a
substantial headnote providing biographical and historical
information. Footnotes supply biblical and other references, and
gloss unfamiliar or specialist vocabulary. The volume includes a
comprehensive bibliography of primary and secondary materials. The
edition is aimed at all those interested in the history of the
Quakers, whether they be scholars in the fields of religious,
cultural and women's studies, or of history and literature
generally.
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