Fritz Fleischmann - Strangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845 (review) - American Literature 73:2 American Literature 73.2 (2001) 413-414 Strangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740–1845. Catherine A. Brekus. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 1998. x, 466 pp. Cloth $49.95; paper, $17.95. A “stranger and a pilgrim” is what Harriet Livermore, four-time preacher to Congress, called herself (1788–1868). Catherine Brekus uses the phrase categorically in her illuminating study of more than 100 evangelical women, white and black, who...