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Article: Daughters of Light: Quaker Women Preaching and Prophesying in the Colonies and Abroad, 1700-1775.
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- June 1, 2000
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Daughters of Light: Quaker Women Preaching and Prophesying in the Colonies and Abroad, 1700-1775. By Rebecca Larson. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. xii + 399 pp. $35.00 cloth.
In nineteenth-century America four of the five women who instigated the first convention for women's rights at Seneca Falls in 1848 were Quakers, and so were 40 percent of female abolitionists. In the second half of the seventeenth century "British" Quaker women were both infamous and remarkable for their unfeminine activities as itinerant evangelists of what they termed "Truth" and as challenging prophets. They were persecuted, as also were less publicly active Quakers who refused tithe ...