Table of Contents

Illustrations xv
Acknowledgments xvii
Abbreviations xix
Chronology of Events in Early Quaker History xxi
INTRODUCTION 1
PART I: PROPHECY 33
Proclaiming the Inner Light 35
Directives to Political and Religious Authorities 93
Warnings 147
Sufferings 225
PART II: LATE SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY QUIETISM AND ORGANIZATION 279
Reason and Reflection 281
Women’s Meetings 337
Bibliography 389
Index 403

About the Author

Teresa Feroli, author of Political Speaking Justified: Women Prophets and the English Revolution (2006), is associate professor of English at New York University's Tandon School.
Margaret Olofson Thickstun, author of Fictions of the Feminine: Puritan Doctrine and the Representation of Women (1988) and Milton's Paradise Lost: Moral Education (2007), holds the Jane Watson Irwin Chair in Literature at Hamilton College.

Reviews

"Anyone interested in early modern women’s writing, or in Quakers more generally, will find here an extraordinary and fascinating range of materials. I felt positively excited just reading the list of contents, and was delighted to find, too, that the  headnotes to the pieces are well designed, giving the kinds of contextual and other information that a reader might most need, and drawing on the best sources when providing those contexts. The annotation is also most useful, enabling readers to understand exactly how the writers are transforming their sources to produce their new messages. Given the excellent prior work of both the editors, none of this is surprising, but it is cause for celebration."
*Elaine Hobby, Loughborough University*