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The Writings of Elizabeth Webb: A Quaker Missionary in America, 1697-1726

The Writings of Elizabeth Webb: A Quaker Missionary in America, 1697-1726

Cope, Rachel
Hutchins, Zachary McLeod

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Biographies GeneralGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0271082232
ISBN13: 9780271082233
Publisher: Penn St Univ Pr
Published: Jan 9 2019
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This comprehensive collection brings together every extant text known to have been penned by Elizabeth Webb, a missionary for the Society of Friends who traveled and taught in England and America during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Webb's work circulated widely in manuscript form during her lifetime, but has since become scarce. This annotated collection reintroduces her as a major contributor to women's writing and religious thought in early America. Her autobiographical works highlight the importance of ecstatic or visionary experiences in the construction of Quaker identity and illustrate the role that women played in creating religious and social networks. Webb used the book of Revelation as a lens through which to comprehend episodes from American history, and her commentary on the book characterized the colonization of New England as a sign of the end times. Eighteenth-century readers looked to her commentary for guidance during the American War of Independence. Her unique take on Revelation was not only impactful in its own day, but puts contemporary understanding of eighteenth-century Quaker quietism into new perspective.

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