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  • Articles and Publications
  • Christopher Densmore and Barbara Addison

An annotated bibliography of the titles listed below is available at the Friends Historical Association website: www.haverford.edu/library/fha

Sally Bruyneel, Margaret Fell and the End of Time: The Theology of the Mother of Quakerism, Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2010, examines the religious thought of Margaret Fell (1614-1702). Kenneth A. Shelton, The Way Cast Up: The Keithian Schism in an English Enlightenment Context, Thesis (Ph.D.)—Boston College, 2009, uses the schism of the 1690s to reveal, in the words of the author's abstract, "how very modern the Quakers were in their handling of honor culture, public dispute, identity, and public authority."
Paul F. Burton, "Using Quaker Records for Social History," Scottish Archives 14 (2008), 39-46, comments on the research use of Quaker meeting records based on examples from Scotland. Pamela Richardson, "Kinship and Networking in a Quaker Family in the Nineteenth Century," Family & Community History, 12.1 (May 2009), uses the Fox family of Devon, England, to explore family, social and business networks.
Errands into the Metropolis: New England Dissidents in Revolutionary London, Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press, 2009, by Jonathan Beecher Field, includes many references to Quakers as dissenters in early colonial New England. Field's chapter on "Suffering and Subscribing: Configurations of Authorship in the Quaker Atlantic," 90-115, examines Quaker publishing in the 1650s and 1660s.
In William Penn and Pan-Utopianism, M.A. thesis, George Washington University, 2009, Patrick William Cecil characterizes Penn's efforts in Pennsylvania as an attempt to establish a "utopian society of toleration and peace." Nicholas P. Miller examines Penn's ideas on religious liberty in "Theology and Disestablishment in Colonial America: Insights from a Quaker, a Puritan and a Baptist," Journal of the Adventist Theological Society 19.1-2 (2008), 137-160.
The life of Bristol, England, Quaker and merchant Thomas Speed (1623-1703) is detailed in Jonathan Harlow's The Life and Times of Thomas Speed, Ph.D. thesis, University of the West of England, 2008.
The Diary of Hannah Callender Sansom: Sense and Sensibility in the Age of the American Revolution, edited by Susan E. Klepp and Karin Wulf, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2010, provides the text and analysis of a journal covering 1758 to 1788, kept by Philadelphia Quaker Hannah Callender Sansom (1737-1801). Unnatural History: Breast Cancer and American Society by Robert A. Aronwitz, [End Page 59] New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007, 21-50, includes a chapter on the experiences of New Jersey Quaker Susanna Dillwyn Emlen (1769-1819) and her six year struggle with the disease. The Diary of Elizabeth Drinker: the Life Cycle of an Eighteenth-Century Woman, edited, with a new preface, by Elaine Forman Crane, Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010 (first published in 1994), is an abridged version of the extensive journals of Philadelphia Quaker Elizabeth Sandwith Drinker (1735-1807).
Pink Dandelion, "Guarded Domesticity and Engagement with 'the World': The Separate Spheres of Quaker Quietism," Common Knowledge 16.1 (2010), 95-109, examines eighteenth-century Quaker quietism with particular attention to the involvement of Friends in abolitionism and other reforms. Peter Collins, "Accommodating the Individual and the Social, the Religious and the Secular: Modelling the Parameters of Discourse in 'Religious' Contexts," in Religion and the Individual: Belief, Practice, Identity, edited by Abby Day, Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008, 143-156, is a contemporary examination of the relation between religion and society based on an examination of an English Quaker meeting.
"The Good Education of Youth": Worlds of Learning in the Age of Franklin, edited by John H. Pollack, New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2009, includes chapters by William Kashatus on "Franklin's Secularization of Quaker Education," and by John C. Van Horne, "The Education of African-Americans in Benjamin Franklin's Philadelphia" and other references to Quakers and education in eighteenth century Philadelphia.
Matthew Dennis, Seneca Possessed: Indians, Witchcraft, and Power in the Early American Republic, Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010, explores cultural and religious change among the Seneca Indians of western New York State in the early nineteenth century, with comments on Quakers and their influence on the Seneca. Jill Kinney...

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