Description
Book SynopsisA comprehensive collection of the writings of Elizabeth Webb, a Quaker missionary who traveled and taught in England and America during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Trade Review“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
“This extraordinary collection of mostly unpublished Quaker documents fills a major gap in early American writings by women and is a major contribution to early American archival scholarship.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
“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
“Cope and Hutchins’s collection and annotation of Webb’s works is an important contribution to Quaker literature. This publication will offer scholars and others a rare glimpse into a female eighteenth-century Quaker preacher.”
—Heather E. Barry Journal of British Studies
“Scholars of Quaker and religious studies, early modern transatlantic history, colonial American literature, and women’s life writing and literary history will welcome The Writings of Elizabeth Webb: A Quaker Missionary in America, 1697–1726, the first volume to collect this once well-known Quaker minister’s published and unpublished works.”
—Lisa M. Logan Legacy
“The Writings of Elizabeth Webb is a fascinating addition to early American and transatlantic literature and will enhance classroom discussions and scholarship on early American history and literature, women’s studies, and religious studies.”
—Jennifer Desiderio Early American Literature
“Cope and Hutchins have produced a timely and valuable compilation of one woman’s writings, sure to be of interest to specialists but also readily accessible and useful to those in the larger fields of American religion and early American history.”
—Rachel Wheeler Reading Religion
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 ReadingIndex
