"Focussing on Quaker pamphlet literature of the commonwealth and restoration period, Catie Gill seeks to explore and explain women’s presence as activists, writers, and subjects within the early Quaker movement. Women in the Seventeenth-Century Quaker Community draws on contemporary resources such as prophetic writing, prison narratives, petitions, and deathbed testimonies to produce an account of women’s involvement in the shaping of th ..."
Women in the Seventeenth-Century Quaker Community(Updated) A Literary Study of Political Identities, 1650-1700 (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World) by CatieGill Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2005 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-7546-3985-5, ISBN: 0-7546-3985-1
"Focussing on Quaker pamphlet literature of the commonwealth and restoration period, Catie Gill seeks to explore and explain women’s presence as activists, writers, and subjects within the early Quaker movement. Women in the Seventeenth-Century Quaker Community draws on contemporary resources such as prophetic writing, prison narratives, petitions, and deathbed testimonies to produce an account of women’s involvement in the shaping of th ..."
"Framed by the publication of Leviathan and the 1713 Licensing Act, this collection provides analysis of both canonical and non-canonical texts within the scope of an eighty-year period of theatre history, allowing for definition and assessment that uncouples Restoration drama from eighteenth-century drama. Individual essays demonstrate the significant contrasts between the theatre of different decades and the context of performance, pay ..."
"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. ..."
"This collection of essays studies the expression and diffusion of radical ideas in Britain from the period of the English Revolution in the mid-seventeenth century to the Romantic Revolution in the early nineteenth century. It covers almost two hundred years of radical history and literature and aims to establish transnational parallels as well as trace transhistorical continuities between forms and vehicles of radicalism. The essays in ..."
"William Penn was an instrumental and controversial figure in the early modern transatlantic world, known both as a leader in the movement for religious toleration in England and as a founder of two American colonies, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. As such, his career was marked by controversy and contention in both England and America. This volume looks at William Penn with fresh eyes, bringing together scholars from a range of discipline ..."
"“Margaret Edmundson (c.1630-1691): Her Husband's Testimony”, Journal of the
Friends Historical Society 33: 32–4. Ellis ... Fell, Margaret. 2003. Undaunted Zeal:
The Letters of Margaret Fell, edited by Elsa F. Glines. Richmond, IN: Friends
United Press. Fell, Sarah. 1912. 'Instructions How You May Order the Business in
the Quarterly Women's Meeting Book', edited by Norman Penney. Journal of the ..."
"Key. to. Terminology. coauthor: describes a text in which two authors write a
single testimony. 'sigy': abbreviation for 'signatory'; used to identify a named
contributor to a text, or passage, which has more than two named authors. ... A., T
. in Margaret Fell, False Prophets (1655) Abbott, Margaret, A Testimony Against
the False Teachers of this Generation (n. pi.: n. pr., n.d.) Abraham, Daniel, in
William Mead, A Brief Collection ..."
"Juan. A. Prieto-Pablos. 1 References to coffee-houses are relatively frequent in
Restoration drama. Plays often included allusions to fashionable meeting places,
and coffee-houses were a new, exciting and very popular addition to the urban
landscape of Restoration cities; so the occurrence of such references is quite
understandable. What is perhaps not so obvious to the occasional reader of
Restoration drama is that these are predo ..."
"William Penn was an instrumental and controversial figure in the early modern transatlantic world, known both as a leader in the movement for religious toleration in England and as a founder of two American colonies, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. As such, his career was marked by controversy and contention in both England and America. This volume looks at William Penn with fresh eyes, bringing together scholars from a range of discipline ..."