Articles and Publications

Articles and Publications Mary Ellen Chijioke & Claire B. Shetter The tercentenary ofGeorge Fox's death in 1691 stimulated several conferences and a great deal ofresearch both on Fox and on the "first period" ofQuakerism. The resulting publications are now becoming available. A recurring theme is the process by which the radical millenarian movement of the Commonwealth period transformed itselfinto a"respectable," ifpersecuted, sectafter the restoration ofthe monarchy. Fox himself is the focus of several publications. To make his writings more accessible to modem readers, British Quaker writer and broadcasterJonathan Fryer has produced a new edition of the Journal and selected Epistles under the title, George Fox and the Children ofthe Light (London: Kyle Cathie, 1 991 ). Cecil W. Sharman has written a new "official" biography, George Fox and the Quakers (London: Quaker Home Service; Richmond, IN: Friends United Press, 1 99 1 ). Joan Allen has a more specific focus in Our George: The Early Years ofGeorge Fox, the Quaker, 1624-45 (Nuneaton, Warwickshire: Bethany Enterprises, 1990). Karl Kirchwey has consulted both Polymnia and Calliope, as well as Clio, to write his "Stanzas from the Life ofGeorge Fox, 1 65 1 -57," Kenyon Review 13.3 (1991): 3941 . Fox'sreligious legacy is examined in a numberofrecentpublications. The most general account of Fox's spirituality is Alan KoIp's Fresh Winds of the Spirit (Richmond, IN: Friends United Press, 1 99 1 ). Arthur Berk discusses George Fox and the Bible: An Introduction to the Study ofFox's Use ofScriptures (Kutztown, PA: New Foundation Fellowship, 1989), while another pamphlet raises the question, "That of God in Every Man" — What Did George Fox Mean by It? (Wingate, NC: New Foundation Publications, 1 992). Christina Victoria Sansom's M.A. Thesis for the University of Waterloo (1990) discusses "Autonomy and Obedience to God: The Case ofGeorge Fox." In his Ph.D. dissertation for the same university (1991), "The Making andUnmaking ofaGod: New LightonGeorgeFox and Early Quakerism," Richard George Bailey argues that, as part ofthe effort to gain respectability, later editors excised Fox's original meaning ofthe Inner Light as the near-corporeal inhabitation of the believer by the celestial Christ. In "Quakers and the English Revolution," Journal ofthe Friends' Historical Society 56.3(1 992): 1 65-1 79, ChristopherHill provides the radical Puritan context for the formative period ofthe Quaker movement, 165 1 -1 661 , before the articulation of the Peace Testimony and codification of Quaker discipline. Steven Marx takes exception to Hill and others in his article, "The Prophet Disarmed: Milton and the Quakers," Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 32.1 (1992): 111-128, arguing that Milton and the early Quakers took parallel paths in their reaction to contemporary events in English politics and society, leading to parallel ideas about war and peace. In his article, "A Parcel of Books for Morgan Llwyd," Journal of the Friends' Historical Society 56.3 (1992): 180-188, Geoffrey Nuttall analyzes one lot of reading matter available to the person identified by Fox as the "Priest at Articles and Publications49 Wrexham." Though never convinced, Llwyd was sympathetic to Friends; this collection of nine tracts included one each by Fox, Dewsbury, and Farnworth. Farnworth is one ofseveral Fox associates receiving special attention in recent publications. Tarn Llewellyn-Edwards has written about "Richard Farnworth of Tickhill," Journal ofthe Friends' Historical Society 56.3 (1992): 201-209. In the same issue (pp. 189-200), H. Larry Ingle's study of "Richard Hubberthorne and History: The Crisis of 1659" suggests the contribution ofone Quaker activistto the transition described by Hill and Marx. The Friends' Historical Society has reprinted Norman Penney's edition of the Experiences in the Life of Mary Penington (Written by Herself) (London, 1992). In transition to the second period, Ken Smallbone introduces us to an early Hampshire Quaker leader in his pamphlet, James Potter, Quaker: A Record of Dissent in the 1 7th and 18th Centuries (York: Sessions Book Trust, 1 992). Robert Barclay's Apology (Latin 1676, English 1687) was the theological culmination of that transition. In "The Fathers and the Inward, Universal Saving Light: A Tercentenary Reappraisal,"Journal oftheFriends' HistoricalSociety 56.3(1992): 210-226, Alan P.F. Sell looks more closely than anyone since...