Women's Speaking Justified and Other Pamphlets
Author | : Margaret Fell |
Publisher | : Iter Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018-05-23 |
ISBN-10 | : 0866985956 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780866985956 |
Rating | : 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Margaret Fell (1614–1702), one of the co-founders of the Society of Friends and a religious activist, was a prolific writer and distributor of Quaker pamphlets. This volume offers eight texts that span her writing career and represent her range of writing: autobiography, epistle or public letter, examination or record of a trial, letter to the king, and argument for women’s preaching. These selections also document Fell’s contributions to Friends’ theology, exemplify seventeenth-century women’s English-language literacy, illustrate Fell’s theories of biblical reading, and exhibit the common qualities of Quaker rhetoric. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe - The Toronto Series, volume 65