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Daughters of Light: Quaker Women Preaching and Prophesying in the Colonies and Abroad, 1700-1775 is a book by Rebecca Larson, published in 1999 [1].
Author[edit]
Rebecca Larson was born in 1959. She has a BA at the University of California, Santa Barbara and a Ph.D. at Harvard University. At the time of publication, she lived in Santa Barbara [2]
Chapters[edit]
Beginnings[edit]
- Origins of Quakerism
- George Fox and Quaker theology
- Women as preachers
- Quakerism's unity of genders
- Spread of Quakerism
- Critics of Quakerism
- Quaker movement transformed
- System of meetings: Extension of Quaker women's authority
- Quaker survival in the world
- Achievement of political tolerance
- An emergence of Quaker transatlantic culture
"Chosen instruments": identifying the Women Ministers[edit]
- Women ministers throughout the transatlantic Quaker community (comparing Jane Fenn, Catharine Payton and Abigail Craven)
- The acknowledgement of Eighteenth-Century Quaker ministers
- Patterns in women ministers' identities:
- Religious background, Wealth and social status, Spiritual development, Call to the ministry, Literacy
- Entrance into the public sphere
"Love yt [that] many waters cannot quench": Women ministers travelling[edit]
- Increased numbers of women travelling
- The "concern" to travel
- The Atlantic voyage: Ocean crossing
- Hazards at sea
- On land: itineraries
- Travel hazards on land
- Guides and transport on land
- Travelling companions
- Travel accommodation
- Communication during travel
- Travel schedule
- Travel changed the women ministers
"Dutiful wives, tender mothers": the family roles of women ministers[edit]
- Marriage patterns
- The ministers' spouses
- Marital obligations of ministers
- Women ministers' increased authority within the family
- Women ministers' motherhood: family size
- Women ministers' childcare
- Quaker attitudes toward motherhood and child rearing
- Quaker religious beliefs changed the family system
"In the service of Truth": Impact of women ministers' travels on the Transatlantic Quaker community[edit]
- Visibility of women travelling minsyers in the Quaker community
- Women minsters elevated as public figures
- How womens' ministry influenced Quaker lives
- Addressing regional dilemmas
- Innovative stances
- The need for reform
- Leaders of reform
- Reform and abolitionism
- Reform and Indian rights
- Reform and the marriage discipline
- Reform increases the number of women's meetings
- Impact of women preachers on Eighteen-Century Quakerism
From "Witches" to "Celebrated preachers": the non-Quaker response to women ministers[edit]
- Quaker women preachers as public figures in non-Quaker culture
- Historical reasons contributing to increased acceptance of Quakers in England
- Historical reasons contributing to increased acceptance of Quakers in America
- Changes within Quakerism
- The role of gender
- The ending of an era
Afterword [A Case study of Elizabeth Webb (1663-1727)][edit]
Appendices[edit]
Appendix 1 (p305-319): Individual descriptions of the transatlantic Ministers.[edit]
10-15 lines on each person:
- Alice (Burton) Alderson (1678-1766):
- Elizabeth (Sampson) (?) (Sullivan) Ashbridge (1713-1755):
- Sarah (Payton) (Clarke) Baker (1669-1714):
- Mary (Hogsflesh) Bannister (fl.. 1703)
- Barbara Bevan (1682-1705)
- Jane (Boid) (Atkinson) Biles (d. 1709)
- Esther (Palmer) Champion (1678-1714)
- Esther (Peacock) Clare (ca. 1675-1742)
- Comfort (Stanyan) (Hoag) CoIIins (1711-1816)
- Hannah (Dent) Cooper (d. 1754)
- Margaret Copeland (1684-1759)
- Jane (Rowlandson) Crosfield (1712-1784
- Phebe (Willets) (Mott) Dodge (1699-1782)
- Mary (?) Ellerton (d. 1736)
- Margaret Ellis (d. 1765 in old age)
- Alice (Featherstone) Hall (1708-1762)
- Eliphal (Smith) (Perry) Harper (d. 1747):
- Hannah (Featherstone) Harris (1708-1786)
- Rebecca (Owen) (Minshall) Harvey (b. 1687-fl. 1751)
- Jane (Fenn) Hoskins (1694-1764):
- Sophia (Wigington) Home (1702-1774)
- Mary (Goodwin) James (d. ca. 1776)
- Elizabeth (?) Kay (d. 1713)
- Mary (Ransom e) Kirby (1709-1779)
- Mary (Payne) Leaver (1720-1789)
- Margaret (Thomas) Lewis (1712-1789)
- Susanna (Hudson) (Hatton) Lightfoot (1720-1781)
- Ann (Herbert) Moore (1710-1783)
- Elizabeth (Roberts) Morgan (1688-1777)
- Elizabeth (Hudson) Morris (1722-1783)
- Sarah Morris (1703-1775)
- Susanna (Heath) Morris (1682-1755)
- Mary (Peisley) Neale (1717-1757)[3]
- Esther (Palmer) Champion (1678-1714)
- Esther (Peacock) Clare (ca. 1675-1742)
- Comfort (Stanyan) (Hoag) Collins (1711-1816)
- Sarah (Clements) Owen (fl. 1703)
- Ann (Chapman) Parsons (1676-1732)
- Mary (Morgan) Pennell (1678-1764)
- Catharine (Payton) Phillips (1726-1794)[4]
- Elizabeth (Beck) Rawlinson (1670-1750)
- Ann (Lewis) (Williams) (Bennett) Roberts (1678-1750)
- Mary (Wheeler) Rogers (d. 1699)
- Elizabeth (Levis) Shipley (1690-1777)
- Ann (Waln) (Dillworth) Sibthorp (1654-1710)
- Elizabeth Smith (1724-1772)
- Margaret (Paine) Stones (d. 1740)
- Rebecca (England) Turner (d. 1721)
- Mary (Hayes) (Lewis) Waln (d. 1753)
- Mary (Pace) Waring (1712-1776)
- Abigail (Craven) (Boles) Watson (1684-1752)[5]
- Elizabeth Webb (1663-1727)
- Elizabeth (Duckworth) Whartnaby (d. 1734)
- Esther (Canby) (Stapler) White (1700-1777)
- Elizabeth (Scot) Wilkinson (1712-1771)
- Rachel (Wilson) Wilson (1720-1775)[6]
- Sarah (Goodwin) Worrell (d. 1775)
Appendix 2 (p320-333): Partial list of American Quaker Women Ministers active 1700-1775[edit]
- Table with column headings Name, Husband, birth/death, Flourished, meeting location, birthplace.
Appendix 3 (p334): The number of deaths of Quaker Ministers in London Yearly Meeting[edit]
- Number of deaths each decade of men and of women ministers
References[edit]
- ^ Rebecca Larson Daughters of Light: Quaker Women Preaching and Prophesying in the Colonies and Abroad, 1700-1775, New York, Alfred A Knopf, 1999 ISBN 0-679-43762-2. Paperback edition - University of North Carolina Press (September 2000): ISBN 978-0-8078-4897-5. This book should not be confused with Carol Lynn Pearson's novel: Daughters of Light (1973)
- ^ Author information from blurb on dust jacket, confirmed by Library of Congress catalogue entry.
- ^ Mary (Peisley) Neale: article in ODNB by Peter Lamb, ‘Peisley , Mary (1718–1757)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Oct 2006 accessed 24 June 2010
- ^ Catharine (Payton) Phillips: article in ODNB by Gil Skidmore, ‘Phillips , Catherine (1727–1794)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online edn, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004 accessed 24 June 2010.
- ^ Abigail (Craven) (Boles) Watson: ODNB article by Peter Lamb, ‘Watson , Abigail (1685–1752)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004 accessed 24 June 2010
- ^ Rachel (Wilson) Wilson: ODNB article by John S. Andrews, ‘Wilson , Rachel (1720–1775)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004 accessed 24 June 2010
External links[edit]
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