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Research in Progress by Mary Ellen Chijioke and Claire B. Shetter With women's studies booming, more and more researchers are discovering the wealth of material available in Quaker sources. The Quaker Women Research Group (c/o Mary Garman, Religion Department, Earlham College, Richmond, IN 47374) has an ongoing project to create a full bibliography of early Quaker women's writings and to publish key documents and articles. Stemming in part from the International Theological Conference of Quaker Women, the results of their efforts should greatly ease future scholarly labors. In American studies, three dissertations under preparation deal with Quaker women: " 'Instructions from a Woman': Hannah Penn and the Pennsylvania Proprietorship ," by Alison Duncan Hirsch (4627 Hazel Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19143) for Columbia University; Karin Wulf (Department of History, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218) on unmarried women in colonial Philadelphia, including the role of Quakerism in the lives of unmarried women; and Anna Speicher (6815 Fairfax Rd., #228, Bethesda, MD 20814) on the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society for George Washington University. Through her graduate history concentration on Women in Leadership, Kim Allen (301 Larchwood Road, West Chester, PA 19382) has become interested in Chester County Quaker women's history, and especially their organizational activities in eras when most women were prohibited from such conduct. Two researchers are studying the influence of Quakerism on the lives of important non-Quaker women: Marie Lindhorst (104 E. Curtin St., Bellefonte, PA 16823) on Sarah Mapps Douglass (1806-1882); and Charlene Sexton (St. Norbert College, 100 Grant St., DePere, WI 54115-2099) on Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879-1958). For the first period of Quakerism, Howard R. Cell (1 1 West Ferry Rd., Yardley, PA 19067) has been examining the form and content of reasoning in Barclay's Apology and the responses to such reasoning by some of his critics. Having finished her dissertation, Maryann Feola-Castelucci (Dept. of English, The College of Staten Island, 715 Ocean Terrace, Staten Island, NY 10301) is continuing her work towards a full-length study of Bristol Quaker George Bishop, looking at his pre-conversion experiences. She is also studying George Fox's work in Launceston jail, and Quaker ideas in Paradise Lost. Lyman W. Riley (190 Kendal at Longwood, Kennett Square, PA 19348) is compiling a list of titles of books owned or used by Francis Daniel Pastorius, which will be available through appropriate libraries, with the permission of the University of Pennsylvania. Margaret Haviland (27 Webb Road, Chadds Ford, PA 19317) is preparing her dissertation for the University of Pennsylvania on Quaker benevolence in Philadelphia, 1790-1820, examining the 339 men and 249 women who formed or joined benevolent organizations. Nancy G. Black is studying the relationship of Quakers and the law, under the sponsorship of the 1991-92 Henry J. Cadbury Research Scholarship at Pendle Hill (338 Plush Mill Rd., Wallingford, PA 19086). Betty Polster (764 Watson St., Duncan, BC, Canada V9L 2L4) is preparing a biography of Sunderland Pattison Gardner (1802-1893) of Genesee Yearly Meeting. Drew E. Van de Creek is preparing his dissertation for the University of Virginia on the history of early American business schools, including the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, founded by Quaker Joseph Wharton. ...

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