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Women’s Speaking Justified and Other Pamphlets
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
The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe - The Toronto Series, volume 65
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Table of Contents
Illustrations xv
Abbreviations xvii
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction 1
A Relation of Margaret Fell, Her Birth, Life, Testimony, and Sufferings 55
To All the Professors of the World 69
A Testimony of the Touchstone for All Professions 85
A Loving Salutation to the Seed of Abraham among the Jews 103
The Examination of Margaret Fell 137
A Letter Sent to the King 151
Women’s Speaking Justified, Proved, and Allowed of by the Scriptures 157
The Daughter of Zion Awakened 177
Bibliography 199
Index 213
Abbreviations xvii
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction 1
A Relation of Margaret Fell, Her Birth, Life, Testimony, and Sufferings 55
To All the Professors of the World 69
A Testimony of the Touchstone for All Professions 85
A Loving Salutation to the Seed of Abraham among the Jews 103
The Examination of Margaret Fell 137
A Letter Sent to the King 151
Women’s Speaking Justified, Proved, and Allowed of by the Scriptures 157
The Daughter of Zion Awakened 177
Bibliography 199
Index 213