| Description |
xix, 327 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Chronology of Margaret Fell's Life -- Pt. I. Life in a Seventeenth-Century Quaker Family. 1. "Weak in Body but Alive to God": Margaret Fell's Religious Self-Reflections. 2. A Family History -- Pt. II. The Domestic and Economic World of the Fells. 3. The Swarthmoor Farm. 4. "Poore and in Necessity": Margaret Fell's Charitable Activities. 5. Feuding Friends -- Pt. III. Political and Religious World of Margaret Fell. 6. "We Have Been a Suffering People under Every Power and Change": Margaret Fell and Politics, 1659-61. 7. "Walk as Becomes Truth": Margaret Fell and Women's Meetings. 8. Gender, Religion, and Class: A Seventeenth-Century Friendship -- Pt. IV. The Mental World of Margaret Fell. 9. Fell's Worldview. 10. "Let Us Be of One Spirit...": Fell's Spiritualist Theology. 11. Fell's Work to Convert the Jews -- 12. Conclusion |
| Summary |
The author marshals evidence to argue that it 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 |
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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 neighbourhood network, and the wider sectarian religious community that extended far beyond her home, Swarthmoor Hall in rural north-west Lancashire |
| Bibliography |
Includes index and bibliography (pages 292-317) |
| Subject |
Fell, Margaret, 1614-1702.
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Quakers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Society of Friends -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.
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Women -- Religious life.
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 17th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056950
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| LC no. |
92085445 |
| ISBN |
0804721548 |
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