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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Rachel Cope (BYU) , Zachary McLeod Hutchins (Assistant Professor of English, Colorado State University )Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press Imprint: Pennsylvania State University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 22.90cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9780271082226ISBN 10: 0271082224 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 09 January 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Note on the TextWebb and Her World: An IntroductionWorks Prepared for Publication A Letter from Elizabeth Webb to Anthony William Boehm, with His Answer Some Meditations with Some Observations upon the Revelations of Jesus Christ Personal Writings A Short Account of My Voyage into America with Mary Rogers, My Companion Short Memorial Letter to Her Children, August 24, 1724Suggestions for Further ReadingIndexReviewsA very important volume, bringing to light a forgotten Quaker minister, adding to the new and necessary scholarship on Quaker women's writings, and helping rewrite our understanding of apocalyptic thought within eighteenth-century Quakerism. It is required reading for all Quaker studies scholars. -Ben Pink Dandelion, author of The Quakers: A Very Short Introduction Rachel Cope and Zachary McLeod Hutchins have done a major service to scholars of early American history, women's history, and Quakerism in reclaiming for us Quaker minister Elizabeth Webb. Her writings provide us with a marvelous view into the spiritual and interior life of a remarkable woman equally at home on both sides of the colonial Atlantic. --Thomas Hamm, author of The Quakers in America This extraordinary collection of mostly unpublished Quaker documents fills a major gap in early American writings by women and is a major contribution to early American archival scholarship. Webb's keen observations range from personal narratives, letters, and travelogues to a unique commentary on the book of Revelation, and the introduction beautifully situates these documents in their historical and intellectual contexts. --Reiner Smolinski, author of The Threefold Paradise of Cotton Mather A very important volume, bringing to light a forgotten Quaker minister, adding to the new and necessary scholarship on Quaker women's writings, and helping rewrite our understanding of apocalyptic thought within eighteenth-century Quakerism. It is required reading for all Quaker studies scholars. --Ben Pink Dandelion, author of The Quakers: A Very Short Introduction A very important volume, bringing to light a forgotten Quaker minister, adding to the new and necessary scholarship on Quaker women's writings, and helping rewrite our understanding of apocalyptic thought within eighteenth-century Quakerism. It is required reading for all Quaker studies scholars. --Ben Pink Dandelion, author of The Quakers: A Very Short Introduction Author InformationRachel Cope is Associate Professor of Church History at Brigham Young University and coeditor of Family Life in Britain and America, 1690–1820. Zachary McLeod Hutchins is Assistant Professor of English at Colorado State University and author of Inventing Eden: Primitivism, Millennialism, and the Making of New England. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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