Articles and Publications

Articles and Publications by Christopher Densmore and Barbara Addison Two articles in Quaker Studies reflect on the career of James Nayler: David Neelon, "James Nayler in the English Civil Wars," 6: 1 (Sept. 2001), p. 8-36, and Carole Spencer, "JamesNayler: Antinomian orPerfectionist?," 6:1 (Sept. 2001) 106-117. An essay by C. John Somerville, "Interpreting Seventeenth-Century English Religion as Movements," Church History 69:4 (2000), 749-769, argues for an expansion ofthe church-sect typology when considering Quakers and other dissenting religions of the English Civil War period. Larry Gragg, "A Heavenly Visitation," History Today 52:2 (February 2002), 46-5 1 , briefly recounts George Fox's visit to Barbados in 1671, the toleration of Quakers on Barbados and the attitude of Quakers toward slaves. Richard L. Greaves, "Seditious Sectaries or 'Sober and Useful Inhabitants'?: Changing Conceptions of the Quakers in Early Modern Britain," Albion 33:1 (2001), 24-50, examines the change in the public perception of Quakers in Britain during the reign of Charles II. Flavel, the Quaker and the Crown: John Flavel, Clement Lake, and Religious Liberty in 17th Century England (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Rhwymbooks, 2000), includes a modernized transcription oíSomethingBy Way ofTestimony Concerning ClementLake. . . . (1 692) that includes a 1 687 exchange ofviews between English Presbyterian John Flavel (16307—1 691) and Quaker Clement Lake (d. 1689). Jon Parmenter, "Rethinking William Penn 's Treaty with the Indians: Benjamin West, Thomas Penn, and the Legacy of Native-Newcomer Relations in Colonial Pennsylvania," Proteus: A Journal ofIdeas, 19:1 (Spring 2002), 38-44, considers landpurchases fromthe Delaware (Lenape) by William Penn and his son Thomas. Whose Land? An Introduction to the Iroquois Land Claims in New York State written by Phillip Harnden (Syracuse: American Friends Service Committee, Upper New York State Area Office, 2000), provides background on land tenure issues dating from the 1700s to the present. The experience ofQuaker women, particularly acknowledged ministers, in the colonial period continues to draw scholarly attention. Two ofthe most recent contributions are Michele Lise Tarter, "Quaking in the Light: The Politics of Quaker Women's Corporeal Prophecy in the SeventeenthCentury Transatlantic World," in Janet Moore Lindman and Michele Lise Tarter, eds., A Centre of Wonders: the Body in Early America (Cornell University Press, 2001) and "Voices Within and Voices Without: Quaker Women's Autobiography" by Barbara BoIz, in Strangers at Home: Amish and Mennonite Women in History, edited by Kimberly D. Schmidt, Diane Articles and Publications43 Zimmerman Umble and Stephen D. Reschly (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002), 283-311, which considers the journals of eighteenth century women Friends and draws distinctions between the public ministry ofQuaker women and the silence in religious affairs ofMennonite women. "The World ofElizabeth Drinker" is the theme ofa special issue of Pennsylvania History 68:4 (Autumn 2001), with articles by Sarah Blank Dine, "Diaries and Doctors: Elizabeth Drinker and Philadelphia Medical Practice, 1760- 1 8 1 0", DebraM. O'Neal, "Elizabeth DrinkerandHer 'Lone' Women: Domestic Service, Debilities, and (In)Dependence through the Eyes ofa Philadelphia Gentlewoman," Susan Branson, "Elizabeth Drinker: Quaker Values and Federalist Support in the 1790s," and Alison Duncan Hirsch, "Uncovering 'the Hidden History ofMestizo America' inElizabeth Drinker'sDiary: InterracialRelationships inLateEighteenth-CenturyPhiladelphia ." The experience ofrural Quakers ofthe same period is the subject of Kenneth L. Cook, "Gaius & Mary Dickinson: a Quaker Couple in the AmericanRevolution," HistoricalReview ofBerks County [Pennsylvania], 67:1 (Winter 2001-2002), 35-38. Several recent articles examine Quakers in seventeenth century New England. Johan Winsser, "Ann Burden: From Dissenting Puritan to Quaker 'Troubler'" in the New EnglandHistorical and Genealogical Register 155 (January 2001), 91-104, concerns a former resident of Massachusetts who returned with Mary Dyer in 1657; the same journal also includes an article by Marya C. Myers and Donald W. James Jr., "William James of Scituate and Boston, Shipwright and Quaker" (p. 36-68). James E. McWilliams, "Work, Family, and Economic Improvement in Late-Seventeenth Century Massachusetts Bay: the Case ofJoshuaBuffum," inNewEnglandQuarterly 74:3 (2001), 355-384, examines the rise of a Friend from day laborer to entrepreneur. The study of the involvement of Quakers in reform, particularly antislavery and woman's rights will be aided by the publication ofTheSelected Letters ofLucretia Coffin Mott, edited by Beverly...