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1 online resource |
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Cambridge studies in early modern British history |
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Cambridge studies in early modern British history.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; List of figures and tables; Acknowledgements; Note to the reader; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Spiritual Housewives and Mothers in Israel: Quaker Domestic Relationships; Quaker Conscience and Family Life; 'Truly United in Spirit': Quaker Marriage and Motherhood; Reconciling Spiritual and Domestic Duties; 'Supplying My Place in My Absence': Ministering Wives and Mothers; 'Good Examples in Life and Conversation': Quaker Mothers in Israel; The Public Work of the Quaker Housewife |
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The Work of Women within the Evolving Quaker Family2 'A Government of Women': Authority and Community within the Quaker Women's Meetings; 'Distinct ... Yet in Perfect Unity': The Evolution of Quaker Women's Meetings; The Transatlantic Quaker Meeting Structure; Overseeing Marriage in the 'True Church'; Enforcing Order and Discipline; Philanthropy, Membership, and Settlement; 'Favoured with Excellent Talents': The Women of the Monthly Meetings; Determining Community Status; 3 'United by This Holy Cement': The Constructions, Practices, and Experiences of Female Friendship |
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The Quest for Amicitia Perfecta: Interpreting FriendshipThe Theology and Language of Quaker Friendship; Friendship and the 'Household of Faith'; 'The Sovereign Balm of Life': The Practice and Maintenance of Quaker Friendship; 'This Act of Pure Friendship': Female Companionship in Quaker Missions; Imaginary Friends: Quaker Women's Over-ocean Alliances; 4 'In the World, but Not of It': Quaker Women's Interactions with the Non- Quaker World; 'Delusions of the Devil': Women in Early Anti-Quaker Polemic; 'Keeping Her Light Within': Changing Understandings of Women in Anti-Quaker Satire |
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Negotiating the Non-Quaker World: Female Friends and Their Neighbours'Useful and Loyal Members of Society': Quaker Women's Professional Relationships; Quaker Philanthropy and the Bristol Workhouse; Female Preachers and Quaker 'Plainness' Testimonies; 'Sweetness ... in Your Society': Quaker Women and Early Enlightenment Thought; Conclusion: Quakerism Reconsidered; Appendix 1: Male and Female Friends Ministering in Ireland; Appendix 2: Tasks Undertaken by the Women's and Men's Monthly Meetings; Breakdown of Tasks under Each Activity; Appendix 3: A Recurring Network of Gossips |
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Appendix 4: Ecclesiastical Licensed Midwives at Quaker Births, 1680-1690Bibliography; Manuscript Sources; Bristol Record Office; British Library; Friends Historical Library Dublin; Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania; Haverford College Quaker and Special Collection, Haverford, Pennsylvania; Historical Society of Pennsylvania; Huntington Library, San Marino, California; Kendal Archive Centre; Lancashire Archives; Library of the Religious Society of Friends, London; The National Archives; University of California Santa Barbara Special Collections |
| Summary |
An original interpretation of the lives and social interactions of Quaker women in the British Atlantic between 1650 and 1750 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 30, 2018) |
| Subject |
Quaker women -- History
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Female friendship -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends.
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Society of Friends -- History
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- Denominations.
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Female friendship -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Quaker women.
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Society of Friends.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781108247085 |
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1108247083 |
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9781108225069 |
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1108225063 |
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