Articles and Publications

Articles and Publications by Mary Ellen Chijioke and Barbara E. Addison The most general new works in Quaker history are for young readers. The Quakers, by Jean Kinney Williams (New York: Franklin Watts, 1998) is a good children's introduction to the history, faith and testimonies of Friends. Kieran Doherty's biography of William Penn: Quaker Colonist (Brookfield, Conn.: Millbrook Press, 1998) is intended for young adult readers. Among new scholarly works, only one deals with the sectarian history of Quakerism. The exception is T. Vail Palmer, Jr.'s article, "Some Issues from Nineteenth-Century Quakerism," {Quaker Religious Thought 29.2 (Jan. 1999): 5-40), which uses Thomas Hamm's seminal work, The Transformation ofAmerican Quakerism, as a starting point to review accepted notions of Gurneyite Quakerism theological development. The greatest number of new publications deal with early Pennsylvania history. Willis M. Rivinus discusses the conflict between Penn's sympathy for Native Americans with his ambitions as a land holder in William Penn and the Lenape Indians: An Account ofThese OriginalIndian Settlers and Their Relations with the White Colonists of Pennsylvania, Much of it Recorded by William Penn Himself(New Hope, Penna.: the author, 1995). Also related to Indian Affairs, Alison Olson's article, "The Pamphlet War Over the Paxton Boys," Pennsylvania Magazine ofHistory andBiography (123.31/2 [Jan/Apr. 1999]: 31-55), analyzes the exchange of polemics surrounding the 1 763 incident as precursorto the pre-Revolutionary writing that began appearing in 1765. Quakers and other pacifists, especially in Bucks and Chester counties, are a full part of the story told in Beyond Philadelphia: The American Revolution in the Pennsylvania Hinterland, edited by John B. Grantz and William Pencak (University Park, Penna.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998). Two works dealing with the African-American struggle for freedom and equality have Quaker connections. Friends have a significantplace in Mary Feeney Vahey's narrative, A Hidden History: Slavery, Abolition, and the UndergroundRailroadin CowNeckandon LongIsland (Port Washington, N.Y.: Cow Neck Peninsula Historical Society, 1998). Margaret Hope Bacon discusses the support for woman's rights of a very important Philadelphia African-American friend ofFriends in The Double Curse of Sex and Color: Robert Purvis and Human Rights ([Philadelphia]: Historical Society ofPennsylvania, 1997). Articles and Publications63 The twentieth-century experience ofAmericanQuakerpacifists has also produced two new works. Reva Griffith has edited the memoir ofArthur C. Standing, as One Man 's Story: A Conscientious Objector in World War I (Kansas City, Mo.: John and Reva Griffith, 1997). An Iowa (Conservative) Quaker, Standing reported relatively good treatment in the Armybefore his release to the Friends Reconstruction Unit. Madeleine Yaude Stephenson and Edwin "Red" Stephenson have drawn on theirpersonal correspondence for a memoir of their life as American Friends Service Committee relief workers in Europe in 1946: Journey ofthe Wild Geese: A QuakerRomance in War-Torn Europe (Pasadena, Calif.: International Productions, 1999). Newly published stories ofindividual Quaker women illuminate aspects of Quaker social history. Polly Grose's Hannah: The Story ofHannah Ingledew Janney, 1725-1818 (York, Eng.: William Sessions, 1997) uses a somewhat imaginative narrative for readability but conveys a sense ofthe life of an American Quaker woman minister through the period of the Revolution and early republic. Harriet Gotchel Monshaw looks at antebellum New Jersey society through the eyes of Elizabeth French Gill, 1794-1854: First Mistress of Greenfield Hall (Haddonfield, N.J.: The Historical Society of Haddonfield, 1998). Elizabeth Gill was a Quaker woman ofindependent means who at age 47 married thrice-widowed John Gill, a Haddonfield plantation owner, farmer, banker and politician. Mary E. Hartshorne's autobiography, From Hackney to Hill Farm: A Tapestry Three Score Years and Ten (Bakewell, Eng.: Country Books, 1997) tells of her life as the daughter adopted by elderly Birmingham Quaker, William Littleboy, and his wife Edith, and ofher later life as part ofa farm family in England, Australia and New Zealand. Starkboro, Vermont was settled by Quakers fromNine Partners Meeting in New York, who founded Monkton Monthly Meeting. Their story is included in the writings of town historian Bertha B. Hanson in Bertha 's Book: A View ofStarksboro 's History compiled by Emma-Lou G. Craig (Starksboro, Vt.: Starksboro Village Meeting House Society, 1998). The category of...