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The Writings of Elizabeth Webb - A Quaker Missionary in America, 1697-1726 (Hardcover)
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The Writings of Elizabeth Webb - A Quaker Missionary in America, 1697-1726 (Hardcover)
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This comprehensive collection brings together every extant text
known to have been penned by Elizabeth Webb, a missionary for the
Society of Friends who traveled and taught in England and America
during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Webb's work
circulated widely in manuscript form during her lifetime, but has
since become scarce. This annotated collection reintroduces her as
a major contributor to women's writing and religious thought in
early America. Her autobiographical works highlight the importance
of ecstatic or visionary experiences in the construction of Quaker
identity and illustrate the role that women played in creating
religious and social networks. Webb used the book of Revelation as
a lens through which to comprehend episodes from American history,
and her commentary on the book characterized the colonization of
New England as a sign of the end times. Eighteenth-century readers
looked to her commentary for guidance during the American War of
Independence. Her unique take on Revelation was not only impactful
in its own day, but puts contemporary understanding of
eighteenth-century Quaker quietism into new perspective. Collecting
the earliest known writings by an American Quaker, and one of the
earliest by an American woman, this annotated volume rightly places
Webb in the company of colonial women writers such as Anne
Bradstreet, Mary Rowlandson, and Sarah Kemble Knight. It will be an
invaluable resource for scholars of early America, women's history,
religious history, and American literature.
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