Description
Focusing on the formative period of Quakerism in seventeenth-century England and the role of one vigorous and authoritative woman, this study offers new insights into the religious, social, and family life of Margaret Fell. The book probes Fell's pivotal role, in close relation to George Fox, in the architecture of the early Quaker church order. It investigates Fell's role in the development of the Quaker women's meetings, a unique seventeenth-century Quaker institution. It also offers a fresh historical perspective of this socially prominent sectarian woman in terms of her family relationships, the household economic unit, the neighborhood network, and the wider sectarian religious community that extended far beyond her home, Swarthmoor Hall in rural north-west Lancashire. The author marshals evidence to argue that is was in keeping with Margaret Fell’s social status, permanence of place, personality, and skills learned in the domestic sphere, that she was a co-leader, along with George Fox, in the first fifty years of Quakerism.
At the time of original publication, Bonnelyn Young Kunze was Adjunct Assistant Professor of History at LeMoyne College, Syracuse, New York. Fellowships from the University of Rochester and the Shakespeare Library, and travel grants from Clemson University, enabled her to complete the research and writing of this book.
This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the 1994 Stanford University Press edition (isbn 0804721548). Find more reproduction works from Stanford University Press at QOOP.com.
Contents
Margaret Fells 13
The Swarthmoor Farm 65
Margaret Fells Charitable 83
Feuding Friends 101
We Have Been a Suffering People under Every Power 131
Margaret Fell and Womens 143
A SeventeenthCentury 169
Fells Worldview 187
Fells Spiritualist 197
Fells Work to Convert the Jews 211
Conclusion 229
Notes 235
Appendix 290
Index 318
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stanford press, margaret fell, quakerism, 17th century, biography, autobiography, religion, women, Society of Friends, Great Britain, History, 17th century, Christianity, Quaker 
