New Critical Studies on Early Quaker Women, 1650-1800

Michele Lise Tarter is a Professor of English at The College of New Jersey. She has published and presented extensively on early Quaker women's writing, Quaker pedagogy, and on Quaker texts and the expansion of the American literary canon. Her publications include Buried Lives: Incarcerated in Early America (co-edited with Richard Bell; University of Georgia Press, 2012).Catie Gill is a Lecturer in Early Modern Writing at Loughborough University with research interests in gender and religion. Her publications include Women in the Seventeenth-Century Quaker Community (Ashgate, 2005) and the edited collection Theatre and Culture (Ashgate, 2010).

New Critical Studies on Early Quaker Women, 1650—1800 is the first essay collection to consider women's crucial and often overlooked roles in Quakerism from the first generation through the eighteenth century and will surely stand as a definitive collection for years to come ... providing us in one volume a twenty-first-century cross-disciplinary conversation among historians and literary scholars of Quakers.

• Michele Lise Tarter and Catie Gill: Introduction Part I: Revolutions 1: Hilary Hinds: Sarah Jones and the Appearance of the Quaker Light 2: Catie Gill: 'Harden not they Heart': 'Antinomian' Appeals to Rulers in Restoration England" 3: Stephen W. Angell: Early Quaker Women and the Testimony of the Family, 1652-1767 4: Michele Lise Tarter: Written from the Body of Sisterhood: Transatlantic Quaker Women's Prophesying and the Creation of a New Word Part II: Disruptions 5: Erin Bell: 'Stock Characters with Stiff-Brimmed Bonnets': Depictions of Quaker Women by Outsiders, c. 1650-1800 6: Naomi Pullin: She Suffered for my Sake': Female Martyrs and Lay Activists in Transatlantic Quakerism, 1650-1710 7: Sarah Crabtree: In the Light and on the Road: Patience Brayton and the Quaker Itinerant Ministry 8: Desirée Henderson: 'The Impudent Fellow Came in Swareing': Constructing and Defending Quaker Community in Elizabeth Drinker's Diary Part III: Networks 9: Rebecca M. Rosen: Copying Hannah Griffitts: Poetic Circulation and the Quaker Community of Scribes 10: Kristianna Polder: Margaret Fell, Mother of the New Jerusalem 11: Elizabeth Bouldin: 'In the Days of Thy Youth': Eighteenth-Century Quaker Women and the Socialization of Children 12: Jean R. Soderlund: Quaker Women in Lenape Country: Defining Community on the West New Jersey Frontier Christine Trevett: Afterword