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Witness, Warning, and Prophecy: Quaker Women’s Writing, 1655-1700

Edited by Teresa Feroli and Margaret Olofson Thickstun

Paperback: 413 pages
Publisher: Iter Press (January 22, 2018)
Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.1 inches
Product Weight: 1.6 pounds

Price: $59.95

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Synopsis

The forty texts collected in this volume offer a small but representative sample of Quaker women’s tremendous literary output between 1655 and 1700. They include examples of key Quaker literary genres – proclamations, directives, warnings, sufferings, testimonies, polemic, pleas for toleration – and showcase a range of literary styles and voices, from eloquent poetry to legal analyses of English canon and civil law. In their varied responses to the core Quaker belief in the indwelling Spirit, these women left a rich literary legacy of an early countercultural movement.

Volume 60 of the publisher’s “The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series.”