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Book SynopsisTrade Review“An impressively researched biography, Our Beloved Friend makes a case for the historical importance of Anne Emlen Mifflin on her own terms, as both a Public Friend and an activist. Her life offers important context for eighteenth-century ideas about and experiences of non-Quaker women. It is also a useful meditation on how ‘ordinary’ people navigated pivotal historical events as well as the moral and ethical complexities of early American society, economy, and politics.”
—Sarah Crabtree,author of Holy Nation: The Transatlantic Quaker Ministry in an Age of Revolution
“Our Beloved Friend provides an example of a strong-willed and intellectually-engaged woman. The compelling narrative of Mifflin’s life is expertly presented and supported with extensive background and by her writings that include multiple genres, such as poetry, spiritual autobiography, travel narrative, diary entries, commonplace books, letters, and prose.”
—Susan Imbarrato,author of Sarah Gray Cary from Boston to Grenada: Shifting Fortunes of an American Family, 1764-1826
“An impressive work of seminal scholarship.”
—Midwest Book Review
Table of ContentsForeword
Cordelia Frances Biddle
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Editorial Apparatus
Introduction
Part 1: A Quaker Life
1. The Early Years, 1755–1778
2. A Season of Trials, 1778–1788
3. Faith in Action, 1788–1798
4. A Widow’s Ministry in the New Nation, 1798–1804
5. Serving the Church Militant, 1805–1816
Epilogue
Part 2: Writings and Testimonies
6. My Religious Progress
7. Radical Pacifism
8. Antislavery
9. Our Native Brethren
Part 3: Correspondence
10. Letters Among Friends, 1776–1799
11. Letters to Family and Friends, 1800–1813
Image Gallery
Appendix
Bibliography
Biographical Note: Gary B. Nash, 1933–2021
Cynthia Shelton
Index
