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Articles and Publications Prepared by Mary Ellen Chijioke and Claire B. Shetter Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College 500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081 Recent biographies span the full range of Quaker history. From the earliest period, E. Jean Whittaker traces the life of one of George Fox's 1652 converts , Thomas Lawson: North Country Botanist, Quaker and Schoolmaster (York: Sessions Book Trust, 1986). He seems to have set the pattern for Quaker scientists with wider moral concerns. From the same period, Barbara Ritter Dailey writes on "The Husbands of Margaret Fell: An Essay on Religious Metaphor and Social Change," The Seventeenth Century 2:1 (1987): 55-71. Kerry S. Walters of Gettysburg College has a recent article in Pennsylvania History 56:3 (1989): 157-76, entitled "The 'Peaceable Disposition' of Animals: William Bartram on the Moral Sensibility of Brute Creation." William Bartram (1739-1823), the son of John and like his father an important naturalist, was a pioneer environmentalist who argued man's responsibility for the protection of the rest of creation, especially animals, whom he believed to have fundamentally pacific natures. The pattern continues in Perfecting the World: The Life and Times ofDr. Thomas Hodgkin, 1798-1866, by Amalie M. Kass and Edward H. Kass (New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1988). Remembered by most of us for identifying the lymphatic disease named after him, the British physician was an important social reformer and champion of preventive medicine. Having produced a biography of Andrew D. White, Glenn C. Altschuler has turned his attention to the wife in his book Better Than Second Best: Love and Work in the Life of Helen Magill (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990). Daughter of Swarthmore College's second president and herself America's first woman PhD, Magill found herself torn between her own intellectual abilities and ambition on the one hand and Victorian society's model of the proper wife. The twentieth century is represented by Ralph Townley's The Brides ofEnderby : A Lincolnshire Childhood (London: Century, 1988; dist. in the U.S. by David & Charles, North Pomfret, VT 05053), a charming autobiographical account of the author's life in a deeply traditional Quaker family in small-town England during the twenties. A classic Quaker autobiography is the subject of a recent doctoral dissertation : "Soft Persuasion: A Rhetorical Analysis of John Woolman's Essays and Journal," by Michael Alan Heller (PhD, Arizona State University, 1989). Heller uses rhetorical analysis to assert that "Woolman's literary artistry is distinctively well-suited to Quaker 'faith and practice.' " In family history, Gwen Boyer Bjorkman's "Hannah (Baskel) Phelps Phelps Hill: A Quaker Woman and Her Offspring," Southern Friend UA (1989): 10-30, will interest both historians and genealogists. Called a "strumpet" in New England, Hill outlived three husbands (two of them brothers) during a life in which she hosted the first Quaker meetings in both Salem (1658) and Albemarle (1672). The article, originally published in National Genealogical Society Quarterly, won the 1987 Family-History Writing Contest of the N.G.S. Articles and Publications49 George I. Willis traces "The English Origins of Henry (I) Willis of Westbury, Long Island," New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 118:2 (1987): 65-74. Two extensive family genealogies privately published are: Russell Newlin Abel, A Mendenhall-Newlin Alliance: A Compilation of the Ancestors and Descendants ofJacob Hewes Mendenhall (1813-1892) and Hannah Worrilow Newlin (1819-1873) ofChester County, Pennsylvania, Paternal andMaternalLineages (Churchill, MD, 1989); and Elizabeth Zettelman Goelz, Robert Raley, cl 715-1805, of Washington County, Pennslvania, and His Descendants: A Quaker Family ofIreland, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Points West (Estes Park, CO, 1989). Edwin B. Bronner has contributed a chapter on "William Penn: Prophet of the Future" to QuestforFaith, QuestforFreedom: Aspects ofPennsylvania's Religious Experience (Selinsgrove: Susquehanna University Press; London: Associated University Presses, 1987), edited by Otto Reimherr. A committee of Lancaster (PA) Meeting has revised Paul Whitely's A History ofLancasterMeeting ofthe Religious Society ofFriends, which briefly discusses the forerunner meetings, then gives a full account of the modern meeting established in 1947, including lists of the first members and holders of major responsibilities in the past 42 years. Amawalk (NY) Monthly Meeting has produced A Short History of...

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