Articles and Publications

ARTICLES AND PUBLICATIONS Edited by Barbara L. Curtis, Crosslands 188 Kennett Square, PA., 19348 In 1986 Friends United Press published Leonard Kenworthy's appraisal of the life and times of his pastor father Murray S. Kenworthy. Living in a Larger World is an illuminating biography of a 20th century Indiana Quaker whose life story expands its horizons to include both the spiritual and social ministries of this energetic man. Professor Peter Brock of the Department of History at the University of Toronto has informed us of an article by Norman C. Freund, "Pacifism and the Holy Experiment; the Reasons for its Failure", which appeared in Gandhi Morg (New Delhi), no. 84, March 1986. The Guilford Review, a publication of the faculty and staff of Guilford College, Greensboro, NC, 27410, has devoted issue #23, Spring 1986, to papers delivered at a symposium held in November 1984 on "The Seventeenth Century World of Ann Conway". Lady Conway, an able spiritual-philosophical thinker, became a Quaker in 1677 toward the end of her life. Walen Bello, under the editorial direction of the Friends Committee on National Legislation, has published a volume of essays entitled Visions of a Warless World. Bello's work, is designed to give perspectives on peace presented by divergent religious traditions. It depicts the hopes they share and the obstacles they face. Excellent bibliographic references are included with each of the eleven chapters. The titles of the unpublished doctoral theses listed below have been taken from the data bases for Dissertation Abstracts International, vol. 46-47 (1985-1986). Addison, Elizabeth Hodnett: Emerson, Quakerism, and an American Aesthetic, 1985 Duke University, 361 pp. Beeth, Howard: Outside Agitators in Southern History: the Society of Friends, 1656-1800, 1984 University of Houston, 570 pp. Copenhaver, John Dresden, Jr.: The Relation of Prayer and Social Responsibility in the Spiritual Theology of Douglas V. Steere, 1986 The Catholic University of America, 313 pp. Cromwell, Paul Frank: The "Holy Experiment": An Examination of the Influence of the Society of Friends upon the Development and Evolution of American Correctional Philosophy, 1986 The Florida State University, 211 pp. Hamm, Thomas E.: The Transformation of American Quakerism, 1800-1910, 1985 Indiana University, 407 pp. Horle, Craig W.: Partridges upon the Mountains: the Quakers and the English Legal System, 1660-1688, 1985 University of Maryland, 572 pp. Kratzer, Jerod John: An Ethnography of an Advisor/Advisee Program in a Quaker Middle School, 1984 North Carolina State University, 265 pp. McCormick, Jo Anne: The Quakers of Colonial South Carolina, 1670-1807, 1984 University of South Carolina, 226 pp. 148 Articles and Publications149 Meinke, Robert John: The Sociology of Inner-Worldly Mysticism: Freedom, Power and Authority in the Society of Friends, 1983 New School for Social Research, 196 pp. Moss, Richard Shannon: Slavery on Long Island: Its Rise and Decline During the Seventeenth through Nineteenth Centuries, 1985 St. John's University, 400 pp. Nelson, Jacquelyn Sue: The Society of Friends in Indiana During the Civil War, 1984 Ball State University, 343 pp. Tretler, David Allan: The Making of a Revolutinary General —Nathanael Greene: 1742-1779, 1986 Rice University, 451 pp. Wood, Richard Eugene: Evangelical Quakers in the Mississippi Valley, 1854-1894, 1985 University of Minnesota, 314 pp. BRIEFER NOTICES Compiled by Barbara L. Curtis On Monday, April 6, 1987, more than 200 persons took part in a seminar held at Haverford College on Witnesses for Change: Quaker women, 1650-1987. A joint effort of the Haverford College Quaker Collection, the history department , and the gender studies concentration at Haverford, the day-long gathering heard addresses from Phyllis Mack, Rutgers University; Mary Maples Dunn, Smith College; Barbara Miller Solomon, Harvard University; Nancy A. Hewitt, University of South Florida; Elisabeth P. Brown, Haverford Quaker Collection; and Jean Soderlund, Swarthmore Peace Collection. Plans are underway for the publication of the papers presented. Inquiries may be directed to co-editors Susan Stuard and Elisabeth Brown at the Quaker Collection, Haverford College , Haverford, PA., 19041. The annual spring meeting of the Friends Historical Association was held on Sunday, May 31, 1987, at the Darby Friends Meeting House, Darby, PA. Members and guests of the association and of the Friends Social Union joined with Darby Friends to celebrate...