Description
Book SynopsisAn interdisciplinary investigation of nineteenth-century Quaker women’s cultural challenges, historical landmarks, and gender transgressions. Explores the dynamic ways that Quaker women were active agents of social and cultural change within multiple contexts.
Trade Review“This volume is an engaging overview of the diversity of women's experiences in a pivotal century for the Society of Friends. The essays offer important new insights on how Quaker women navigated competing religious and social expectations.”
—Carol Faulkner,Syracuse University
Table of ContentsForeword by Janet Scott
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Robynne Rogers Healey and Carole Dale Spencer
Part 1: Engaging Conflict and Separations
1. Hicksite Women in the Long Nineteenth Century
Thomas D. Hamm
2. Elizabeth Robson, Transatlantic Women Ministers, and the Hicksite-Orthodox Schism
Robynne Rogers Healey
3. Women in the World of George W. Taylor: The Public and Private Worlds of Orthodox Quaker Women
Julie L. Holcomb
Part 2: Engaging Diversity
4. Vocation, Religious Identity, and the Abolitionist Networks of Sarah Mapps Douglass and Sojourner Truth
Stephen W. Angell
5. “She Hath Done What She Could”: The Charitable Antislavery Work of Eleanor Clark of Street
Anna Vaughan Kett
6. Ruth Esther Smith (1870–1947): Foremother to Friends in Central America
Jennifer M. Buck
Part 3: Engaging Sacred and Secular Literature
7. An Unforeseen Consequence of the Orthodox-Hicksite Schism (1827–1828): The Fiction Writing of Amelia Opie, Helen Hunt Jackson, Mary Howitt, and Mary Hallock Foote
Isabelle Cosgrave
8. A Friendly Daughter: Lucy Barton’s (Ex-)Quaker Identity, Cultural Negotiations, and Authorial Inheritance
Nancy Jiwon Cho
9. The “Mystic Sense” of Scripture as Taught by Holiness Quaker Hannah Whitall Smith
Carole Dale Spencer
Part 4: Engaging the Wider Social and Cultural World
10. “Radicalism Within Boundaries”: Excavating the Contribution of Women Quakers to Radical Reform in Britain and Their Transnational Networks in the Nineteenth Century
Joan Allen and Richard C. Allen
11. “We Must Hope That the Moderates with Their Quiet Attire Are the Rising Section”: British Women Friends’ Relinquishment of Plain Dress
Hannah Rumball
12. “The Joy of Doing Right”: The Humanitarian Work of Doctor Hilda Clark During the First World War
Linda Palfreeman
Afterword by Emma Lapsansky-Werner
Selected Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
