Author: James JenkinsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780889469761
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
The Records and Recollections of James Jenkins
Author: James JenkinsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780889469761
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
The Records and Recollections of James Jenkins
Author: James JenkinsPublisher: New York : E. Mellen Press
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
This volume presents James Jenkins' account of his life in the Quaker community of the early-19th century.
The Pen and the People
Author: Susan WhymanPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191615854
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Susan Whyman draws on a hidden world of previously unknown letter writers to explore bold new ideas about the history of writing, reading and the novel. Capturing actual dialogues of people discussing subjects as diverse as marriage, poverty, poetry, and the emotional lives of servants, The Pen and the People will be enjoyed by everyone interested in history, literature, and the intimate experiences of ordinary people. Based on over thirty-five previously unknown letter collections, it tells the stories of workers and the middling sort - a Yorkshire bridle maker, a female domestic servant, a Derbyshire wheelwright, an untrained woman writing poetry and short stories, as well as merchants and their families. Their ordinary backgrounds and extraordinary writings challenge accepted views that popular literacy was rare in England before 1800. This democratization of letter writing could never have occurred without the development of the Royal Mail. Drawing on new information gleaned from personal letters, Whyman reveals how the Post Office had altered the rhythms of daily life long before the nineteenth century. As the pen, the post, and the people became increasingly connected, so too were eighteenth-century society and culture slowly and subtly transformed.
Gender, Religion, and Radicalism in the Long Eighteenth Century
Author: Judith JenningsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351157582
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Through analysis of the life and writings of eighteenth-century Quaker artist and author Mary Knowles, Judith Jennings uncovers concrete but complex examples of how gender functioned in family, social, and public contexts during the Georgian Age. Knowles's story, including her bold confrontation of Samuel Johnson and public dispute with James Boswell, serves as a lens through which to view larger connections, such as the social transformation of English Quakers, changing concepts of gender and the transmission of radical political ideology during the era of the American and French revolutions. Further, Jennings offers a more nuanced view of the participation of "middling" women in radical politics through an examination of Knowles's theological beliefs, social networks and political opinions at a time when the American and French Revolutions reshaped political ideology. By analyzing Mary Knowles's connections-both male and female-Jennings contributes new understanding about how sociability operated, encompassing women and men of various faiths and ethnic origins.
The Journal of the Friends' Historical Society
Author: Albion's Seed
Author: David Hackett FischerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019974369X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 981
Book Description
This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations.
The Quaker Family in Colonial America
Author: J. William FrostPublisher: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 1466887877
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
The Quaker Family in Colonial America is a book by J. William Frost.
The Bulletin of Friends Historical Association
Author: Friends' Historical AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
Daughters of Light
Author: Rebecca LarsonPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 9780807848975
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
More than a thousand Quaker female ministers were active in the Anglo-American world before the Revolutionary War, when the Society of Friends constituted the colonies' third-largest religious group. Some of these women circulated throughout British North
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