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  • Articles and Publications
  • Christopher Densmore and Barbara Addison

A list of the titles mentioned in this article is available at the Friends Historical Association web site: www.haverford.edu/library/fha

George Fox, A Christian Mystic: Texts That Reveal His Personality, by Hugh McGregor Ross, Westport [Ireland]: Evertype, 2008, is a revision of a work earlier published as George Fox Speaks for Himself (1991); Sarah Apetrei, "The Universal Principle of Grace: Feminism and Anti-Calvinism in Two Seventeenth-Century Women Writers," Gender and History, 21.1 (April 2009), 130-146, examines the life and writings of Quaker Elizabeth Bathurst and the non-Quaker visionary M. Marsin. Jacqueline Broad and Karen Green, A History of Women's Political Thought in Europe, 1400–1700, Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009, includes a chapter, 162-179, on Quaker women in England. Pink Dandelion, Betty Hagglund, Pam Lunn, and Edwina Newman, "'Choose Life!' Quaker Metaphor and Modernity," Quaker Studies 13:2 (March 2009), 160-183, is a response to Grace Jantzen's "Choose Life! Early Quaker Women and Violence in Modernity," which was published in Quaker Studies in 2005. They examine the language of male and female Friends from Margaret Fell to contemporary British Quakerism. Michael Birkel, The Messenger That Goes Before: Reading Margaret Fell for Spiritual Nurture, Wallingford, Pa.: Pendle Hill Publications, 2008, provides a guide to the writings and language of Margaret Fell.
Restoration Ireland: Always Settling and Never Settled, edited by Coleman A. Dennehy, Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008, includes a chapter, 85-98, by Sandra Maria Hynes, "Changing Their Path: Quaker Adaptation to the Challenge of Restoration, 1660–1680." Some Records of the Lurgan Quakers of Northern Ireland: Men's Preparative and Particular Meeting Minutes, transcription and editing by J.L. Fisher, [Northern Ireland: J.L. Fisher], 2008 (Wimberly, Texas: Engelhart Printing), covers minutes from 1675 to 1729, and includes indexes. Susan B. Egenolf, "'Our Fellow-Creatures': Women Narrating Political Violence in the 1798 Irish Rebellion," Eighteenth-Century Studies 42.2 (2009), 217-234, uses the writing of Irish Quaker Mary Leadbeater to explore the political role of women in a time of turmoil.
Reprinted sections from Joseph Besse's Collection of Sufferings (1753) continue with Sufferings of Early Quakers: East Anglia and East Midlands, 1649 to 1690, York: Sessions Book Trust, 2007; and Sufferings of Early Quakers: West Midlands, 1650 to 1690, York: Sessions Book Trust, 2008. Each volume includes an introduction by Michael Gandy and a name index. Kristel Marie Hawkins, Suffering and Early Quaker Identity: Ellis Hookes and the "Great Book of Sufferings," Thesis (M.A.), Miami University, Dept. of History, 2008, examines the form, content, and purpose of accounts of sufferings as recorded in The Great Book of Sufferings. [End Page 57]
Matthew Horn, "Texted Authority: How Letters Helped Unify the Quakers in the Long Seventeenth Century," The Seventeenth Century 23.2 (Oct. 2008), 290-314, examines the function of epistles and correspondence of George Fox and other Quaker leaders. Larry Dale Gragg, The Quaker Community on Barbados: Challenging the Culture of the Planter Class, Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2009, explores early Quakerism in the West Indies. Kristen Block, Faith and Fortune: Religious Identity and the Politics of Profit in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean, Thesis (Ph. D.), Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, 2007, includes a chapter on Barbados and the conflict between Quakers and the local government.
S.D. Smith and T.R. Wheeley, "'Requisites of a Considerable Trade': The Letters of Robert Plumsted, Atlantic Merchant, 1752–1758," The English Historical Review, 124:508 (2009), 545-570, considers the business affairs of London Quaker merchant Robert Plumsted and the relationship between Quakerism and business. Simon Webb, Quakers, Newgate and the Old Bailey, Durham [UK]: S. Webb, 2008, explores the involvement of Quakers, both as prisoners and prison reformers from 1652 to 1851.
Margo M. Lambert, Francis Daniel Pastorius: An American in Early Pennsylvania, 1683–1719/20, Thesis (Ph. D.), Georgetown University, 2007, examines German migration to Pennsylvania. Sarah Fatherly, Gentlewomen and Learned Ladies: Women and Elite Formation in Eighteenth Century Philadelphia, Bethlehem [PA]: Lehigh University Press, 2008, examines the role of women, including Quaker women, in creating and perpetuating elites in...

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