Articles and Publications

Articles and Publications by Mary Ellen Chijioke and Claire B. Shetter Whether or not "founder" is a suitable term for describing George Fox's relationship with Quakerism, he continues to stimulate discussion. In "George Fox as Enthusiast: An Unpublished Epistle'' {Journal ofthe Friends' Historical Society 55.8 (1989): 265-70), H. Larry Ingle speculates that one epistle which appears in both the Swarthmore and Caton manuscripts (and which he reproduces with variations from both copies) may deliberately have been omitted from Fox's published writings because of its explicit claim of spiritual identity with Christ, a claim which Fox and his followers would not have wanted repeated after Naylor's Bristol adventure . N. I. Matar treats a strikingly relevant topic in "Some Notes on George Fox and Islam" {Journal of the Friends' Historical Society 55.8 (1989): 271-6), arguing that Fox's writings reveal not only a near-unique concern to include Muslims within the potential spiritual community, but a thorough knowledge of the Koran and a recognition of "the moral content of others' religion and culture." Jill Boughton introduces Margaret Fox to a wider community in her brief biography, "In Darkness and in Light, She Placed Her Trust in God" (New Heaven/New Earth 8:11 (Dec. 1990): 17-18ff). Also dealing with the first period, Geoffrey F. Nuttall discusses fresh evidence of the remarkable extent of early Quakerism in North Cumberland, both numerically and geographically, in his research note, "Early Friends in North Cumberland" (Journal ofthe Friends' Historical Society 55.7 (1989): 250-1). In Richard Robinson of Countersett, 1628-1693, and the Quakers of Wensleydale (York: William Sessions, 1989), David S. Hall examines the history of Friends in North Yorkshire through the life of one of the area's earliest Friends. Later periods of British Quaker life are explored through a series of biographies. Basil N. Reckitt has drawn upon and supplemented the journal of a Quaker missionary in William Reckitt; An Eighteenth Century Quaker Transatlantic Traveller: His Journeys in America, England, France and the West Indies:from 1756 (York: Sessions Book Trust, 1989). A personal picture of nineteenth-century Quaker life is given in John Dilworth Abbatt's book, A Victorian Quaker Courtship: Lancashire Love Letters of the 1850s (York: William Sessions, in association with Friends United Press, 1988), which reproduces, with extensive background information , the courtship correspondence of Jonathan Abbatt and Mary Dilworth, 1853-1855. Three Hannahs (York: William Sessions, 1989), by Hannah Henderson Taylor ("the fourth Hannah"), covers three generations of Northumberland Quaker women, including one who spent much of her adult life (and her daughter's childhood) as a missionary in Madagascar. The sectarian history of the Society of Friends is the focus of Edwin Bronner's article, "Moderates in London Yearly Meeting, 1857-1873: Precursors of Quaker Liberals" (Church History 59.3 (1990): 356-71), which demonstrates that British Quakerism was not so monolithically evangelical in the third quarter of the nineteenth century as is sometimes thought. Damon D. Hickey deals with the same period on the other side of the Atlantic in "Pioneers of the New South: The Baltimore Assocation and North Carolina Friends in Reconstruction" (Southern Friend 11.1 (1989):51-48), discussing the efforts of Baltimore Friends, led by Francis T. King, to stem the migration of Friends from the South after the Civii War by developing a network of Friends' schools and agricultural services and providing 54Quaker History support for meetings. Thomas D. Hamm reviews the origin of the midwestern pastoral tradition in the nineteenth century revival movement and examines its legacy in Where We Are and How We Got Here (Western Yearly Meeting, 1990 Quaker Lecture). "The Word Spread by All: Among Quakers, Everyone is Called to preach" (Trust 2.2 (Autumn 1990): 15-16) is the contribution of Thomas J. Mullen, Dean of Earlham School of Religion, to a special issue on contemporary preaching. He examines the basis of Friends' vocal ministry in both the unprogrammed and programmed traditions. A more personal review of twentieth-century southern Quakerism is given in Seth B. Hinshaw's autobiography, Life in the Quaker Lane ([Greensboro, N.C]: North Carolina Friends Historical Society and North Carolina Yearly Meeting, 1990...