Articles and Publications

Articles and Publications by Christopher Densmore and Barbara Addison Historical Dictionary ofthe Friends (Quakers), edited by Margery Post Abbott, Mary Ellen Chijioke, Pink Dandelion and John William Oliver Jr. (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2003), no. 44 of the Scarecrow Press series of "Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies and Movements ," includes entries on topics and individuals, appendices on the origins of yearly meetings, current statistics on membership world-wide, and an extensive bibliography of secondary sources. Quaker Heritage Press has published volume 1 of a projected four volume collection ofThe Works ofJames Nayler (1618-1660), edited with an introduction by Licia Kuenning (Glenside, PA: Quaker Heritage Press, 2003). The present collection will include materials not contained in the 1719 and 1829 editions ofNayler's writings. Two works by William Penn have been recently reprinted. Some Fruits ofSolitude: Wise Sayings on the Conduct ofHuman Life, edited by Eric K. Taylor (Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 2003), is a paraphrase in modern English, with an historical introduction on Penn. Penn's No Cross, No Crown (Shippensburg, PA: Mercy Place Ministries; distributed by Destiny Image, 2001), reproduces part 1 of Penn's famous work, based on the Philadelphia edition of 1807. Quaker Aesthetics: Reflections on a Quaker Ethic in American Design and Consumption, edited by Emma Jones Lapsansky and Anne A. Verplanck (Philadelphia: University ofPennsylvania Press, 2003) is a compilation of original essays on Quaker architecture, dress, furniture, portraiture and other manifestations of material culture in the Philadelphia and Delaware Valley from the 18th to the early 20th century. Kathleen H. Thomas, The History andSignificance ofQuaker Symbols in SectFormation (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2002), Volume 2 in the Mellen "Quaker Studies " series, examines material culture, dress, speech, silence and other aspects of Quaker culture. Suzanne Keen, "Quaker Dress, Sexuality, and the Domestication ofReform in the Victorian Novel," Victorian Literature and Culture, 30. 1 (2002): 21 1-36, reinterprets the meaning of"Quakerish" dress in nineteenth century British literature. D. Britton Gildersleeve, "I Had a Religious Mother: Maternal Ancestry, Female Spaces and Spiritual Synthesis in Elizabeth Ashbridge's Account," Early American Literature 36.3 (Fall 2001): 371-94, provides a contemporary literary analysis of Anglo-American Quaker Elizabeth Ashbridge's (1713-1755) spiritual autobiography. The first generation ofwomen Friends is the subject of Judith Rose, "Prophesying Daughters: Testimony, Censorship and Literacy Among Early Quaker Women," Critical Survey 14.1 Articles and Publications69 (January 2002): 93-102. New Jersey Quaker reformer John Woolman (1720-1772) is the subject of Michael Meranze, "Materializing Conscience : Embodiment, Speech, and the Experience of Sympathetic Identification ," Early American Literature 37.1 (Winter 2002): 71-90. Jan Schenk Grosskopf, "Family, Religion, and Disorder: the Rogerenes of New London, 1676-1726," Connecticut History 40.2 (2001): 203-24, explores the history ofa sect that shared some similarities with the Society of Friends. Mary Maples Dunn's essay, "Saints and Sisters: Congregational and Quaker Women in the Early Colonial Period," originally published in 1978 in American Quarterly, is reprinted in Critical Issues in American Religious History: a Reader, edited by Robert R. Mathisen (Waco, Texas: Baylor Univ. Press, 2001). Thomas D. Hamm, "The Divergent Paths of Iowa Quakers in the Nineteenth Century," Annals ofIowa 61.2 (2002): 125-150, continues his investigations into the development of North American Quakerism. Nancy Isenberg, "To Stand Out in Heresy: Lucretia Mott, Liberty, and the Hysterical Woman," Pennsylvania Magazine ofHistory and Biography 127.1 (2003): 7-34, includes extensive reference to Joseph Blanco White, a favorite author ofMott; and to the subject ofwomen cloistered in religious orders. Sherry H. Penney and James D. Livingston, "Expectant at Seneca Falls," in New York History 84:1 (Winter 2003):32-59, concerns Lucretia Mott's younger sister, Martha Coffin Wright (1806-1875), one of the women who organized the First Woman's Rights Convention at Seneca Falls in 1848. Relations between Quakers and African-Americans in the Philadelphia area in the 19th century are the subject of two studies. Sarah Mapps Douglass, Faithful Attender of Quaker Meeting: View from the Back Bench, by Margaret Hope Bacon, with foreword by Vanessa Julye (Philadelphia : Quaker Press of Friends General Conference, 2003), covers the life of Sarah Mapps Douglass (1806-1882), daughter of Grace...