Articles and Publications

Articles and Publications Mary Ellen Chijioke & Claire B. Shetter George Fox andthe firstgeneration ofQuakerleaders continue to figureprominently in publications received. While not specific to Quaker history, David L. Smith's study of Oliver Cromwell: Politics and Religion in the English Revolution, 1640-1658 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1 991) provides the setting for initial Quaker expansion, with a conclusion that Cromwell demonstrated remarkable religious toleration , even for Quakers, so long as they remained peaceable. A pair ofarticles in Albion illA; 1992) spans the first two periods: H. Larry Ingle, whose biography of Fox will soon be published by Oxford University Press, contrasts the "instinctual, unlearned, concrete" approach of"George Fox, Millenarian" (pp. 261-278) with the "theological, philosophical, abstract" millenarianism of the churches; in his article on "Shattered Expectations: George Fox, the Quakers andthe Restoration State, 1 660-1 685" (pp. 237259 ), Richard L. Greaves examines the fading ofQuaker hopes to convert the world. Nigel I. Dolby has performed a considerable service for future students of Fox in preparing An Index or Concordance to the Journal ofGeorge Fox (1831 edition) (Ham Lake, MN.: the compiler, 1 991). The four-volume work presents a computer-generated key-word-in-context index to the most readily-available edition of the journal. The status and role ofwomen in all periods ofQuakerism likewise continue to figure prominently inresearch andwriting. Tilling more deeplythe groundbrokenby Christine Trevett, Phyllis Mack's Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992) focuses on the Society of Friends to explore the significance ofgender in the thinking and behaviour ofreligious visionaries in the second halfofthe seventeenth century. Dealing with the same period is Michele Denise Ryan's M.A. thesis, '"No Such Difference as Men Would Make': the Ambiguous Position of Quaker Women in Seventeenth-Century England" (San Jose State University, 1992). Rebecca Larson's 1993 Ph.D. dissertation for Harvard, " 'Public Friends': Quaker Women Travelling Ministers, 1700-1775" surveys records relating to both British and American women to examine the impact oftheir travelling ministry on family life and the role ofwomen in the Quaker family. Three items deal with Quaker women in non-Quaker contexts. Carol Kolmerten reproduces and analyzes "Voices from New Harmony: The Letters of Hannah Fisher Price and Helen Gregoroffsky Fisher" (Communal Societies 12 (1992): 113-129). Clearly the optimism and idealism ofQuaker Hannah made it easier for her to endure and evenvalue the difficulties ofcommunal experimentationthan forher Russian sisterin -law. In her review of "Reading and Ambition: M. Carey Thomas and Female Heroism" (American Quarterly 45.1 (1993): 73-103), Barbara Sicherman shows how the future president of Bryn Mawr College circumvented the restrictions set by her Orthodox Quakerparents to readnot only thepermittedpoetry but most ofthe English prose classics. Further illustrating the range of choices open to nineteenth-century Quaker women is Lynne Sample Stahler's M.A. thesis (Dartmouth College, 1992), "Maria Mitchell: the Future and Back," a costume study documenting how the Quaker astronomer's clothes differed from those ofher peers. The Quaker vision of transforming the world may have dimmed after 1660, but evangelism saw arevival in the nineteenth century, as discussed in J.C. Cooky's article on "British Quaker Missionary Enterprise in West China — Its Devolution Problem" (Chinese Studies in History 25.4 (1992): 65-82) The Quaker content is frequently tangential in recent works on early American Articles and Publications115 history. In his guide to HistoricPhiladelphia: The City, Symbols & Patriots, 1681-1800 (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1992), William C. Kashatus, III has includedtwo Friendsandtwo Free Friends: William PennandBenjaminLay, Betsy Ross and Samuel Wetherill. Lorett Treese's survey ofTheStorm Gathering: ThePenn Family and the American Revolution (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992) makes itclearthatno contemporary ofJohn Pennconfusedthe colony's last Governor(1773-1776) withQuakerinterests. Thearchitectural survey oftheBrandywine Battlefield: The National Historic Landmark Revisited (Media, PA: Delaware County Planning Project, 1992), by Nancy V. Webster, et al. includes many Quaker sites, including Birmingham meetinghouse (1763) and many Quaker homes. In New England, Roland L. Warren's study ofaLoyalDissenter: TheLife and Times of Robert Pike (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1991) shows how the sufferings of seventeenth-century Friends in the Puritan...