An Account of the Life, Ministry, and Travels of that Ancient Servant of Jesus Christ
Author: John Richardson
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Published: 1867
Total Pages: 212
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Author: John Richardson
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Published: 1867
Total Pages: 212
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: George Fox
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Published: 1894
Total Pages: 518
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Published: 1831
Total Pages: 410
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: George Fox
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Published: 1832
Total Pages: 684
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Richardson
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Published: 1856
Total Pages: 278
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Charles Evans
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Published: 1905
Total Pages: 470
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Booy
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-11-01
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 1040290108
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile writings by early modern Quaker women have been discussed and quoted fairly extensively, relatively few of their texts are readily or widely available. The chief purpose of this edition is to rectify this state of affairs in one central area - that of autobiographical writing. The edition contains substantial excerpts from a range of self-writings by Quaker women, composed between the 1650s and circa 1710: letters, testimonies, memoirs, accounts of spiritual development, narratives of persecution and imprisonment. Six of the texts have been freshly edited from manuscripts (including Mary Penington's A Brief Account); the others have been transcribed from the first printed editions. In his general introduction to the volume, the editor sketches the history of the Quaker movement from the 1650s to the early 1700s, and considers the role of female Quakers during the first and second phases of the movement. The introduction also surveys the types and purposes of autobiographical writings produced by female Friends, and relates these writings to key Quaker ideas, concerns and practices regarding the inner light, scripture, testimony, plain speaking, friendship, gender and community. Booy indicates the wider context of the development of autobiographical writing during the seventeenth century, and discusses briefly issues to do with the construction of the self in writing. Each text is prefaced by a substantial headnote providing biographical and historical information. Footnotes supply biblical and other references, and gloss unfamiliar or specialist vocabulary. The volume includes a comprehensive bibliography of primary and secondary materials. The edition is aimed at all those interested in the history of the Quakers, whether they be scholars in the fields of religious, cultural and women's studies, or of history and literature generally.
Author: George Fox
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Published: 1765
Total Pages: 786
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 424
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Isabel Rivers
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018-07-26
Total Pages: 476
ISBN-13: 0192542621
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, the pilgrims cannot reach the Celestial City without passing through Vanity Fair, where everything is bought and sold. In recent years there has been much analysis of commerce and consumption in Britain during the long eighteenth century, and of the dramatic expansion of popular publishing. Similarly, much has been written on the extraordinary effects of the evangelical revivals of the eighteenth century in Britain, Europe, and North America. But how did popular religious culture and the world of print interact? It is now known that religious works formed the greater part of the publishing market for most of the century. What religious books were read, and how? Who chose them? How did they get into people's hands? Vanity Fair and the Celestial City is the first book to answer these questions in detail. It explores the works written, edited, abridged, and promoted by evangelical dissenters, Methodists both Arminian and Calvinist, and Church of England evangelicals in the period 1720 to 1800. Isabel Rivers also looks back to earlier sources and forward to the continued republication of many of these works well into the nineteenth century. The first part is concerned with the publishing and distribution of religious books by commercial booksellers and not-for-profit religious societies, and the means by which readers obtained them and how they responded to what they read. The second part shows that some of the most important publications were new versions of earlier nonconformist, episcopalian, Roman Catholic, and North American works. The third part explores the main literary kinds, including annotated bibles, devotional guides, exemplary lives, and hymns. Building on many years' research into the religious literature of the period, Rivers discusses over two hundred writers and provides detailed case studies of popular and influential works.