Strength in Weakness - Writings of Eighteenth-Century Quaker Women

Klappentext Quaker women in the eighteenth century were carrying on the faith and activity of their seventeenth-century forebears, but as a group their lives and writings have been neglected in modern times by both Quaker and other historians. Gil Skidmore brings together a rich array of letters, spiritual autobiographies, journals, and memoirs to put the lives and concerns of these women into context. Zusammenfassung Quaker women in the eighteenth century were carrying on the faith and activity of their seventeenth-century forebears! but as a group their lives and writings have been neglected in modern times by both Quaker and other historians. Gil Skidmore brings together a rich array of letters! spiritual autobiographies! journals! and memoirs to put the lives and concerns of these women into context.

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• Authors: Gil Skidmore, Gil (EDT)/ Skidmore Skidmore, Skidmore Gil
• Assisted by: Gil Skidmore (Editor)
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.05.2010
• EAN: 9780300165289
• ISBN: 978-0-300-16528-9
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Sacred Literature Trust Series; Sacred Literature (Paperback); Sacred Literature Trust Series; The Spirit of ...; Sacred Literature (Paperback)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; RELIGION / Christianity / Quaker, Religion & beliefs, Quakers (Religious Society of Friends)