Articles and Publications

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Articles and Publications Christopher Densmore and Barbara Addison This document is available at the Friends Historical Association website: http://www.haverford.edu/library/fha Many of the current books and articles examine the first period of Quakerism. Stephen W. Angell, “An Early Version of George Fox’s ‘Letter to the Governor of Barbados’,” Quaker Studies 19, no. 2 (March 2015): 277–294, compares the earliest publication of this influential Quaker statement in 1672 to the version published in the 1694 edition of Fox’s journal. Angell’s other contributions include Stephen W. Angell, “Richard Farnworth, Samuel Fisher, and the Authority of Scripture among Early Quakers,” Quaker Studies 19, no. 2 (March 2015): 207–228, and Stephen W. Angell and Pink Dandelion, eds., Early Quakers and Their Theological Thought (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015). Rex Ambler considers “Light” as used by both early and contemporary Quakers in The Light Within: Then and Now, Pendle Hill pamphlet 425 (Wallingford, PA: Pendle Hill Publications, 2013). Others examining the early period include Michael Birkel, “Robert Barclay and Kabbalah,” Quaker Studies 21, no. 1 (September 2016): 3–13; Marjon Ames, Margaret Fell, Letters, and the Making of Quakerism (New York: Routledge, 2017); Madeleine Ward, “Transformative Faith and the Theological Response of the Quakers to the Boston Executions,” Quaker Studies 21, no. 1 (September 2016): 15–32; Bernard Capp, “The Religious Marketplace: Public Disputations in Civil War and Interregnum England,” English Historical Review 129, no. 536 (February 2014): 47–78; and Jonathan Warren, “‘Out of Whose Hive the Quakers Swarm’d’: Polemics and the Justification of Infant Baptism in the Early Restoration,” Perichoresis 13, no. 1 (June 2015): 97–113. Judith Roads, “Incantational and Catechetical Style in Early Quaker Prose Writings,” Quaker Studies 19, no. 1 (September 2014): 172–181, concludes that Quakers used both styles in the 17th century, though the incantational style was less used at the end of the century. Kate Peters, “The Quakers and the Politics of the Army in the Crisis of 1659,” Past & Present 231, no. 1 (May 2016): 97–128, includes an analysis of Quaker merchant George Bishop. Nicholas Seager, “John Bunyan and Socinianism,” Journal of Ecclesiastical History 65, no. 3 (July 2014): 580–600, draws on Bunyan’s disputes with Quakers. Works on the material culture of Quakers include Alexandra Alevizatos Kirtley, “Superfluity & Excess,” Magazine Antiques 183, no. 2 (March 2016): 88–97, and Mary Uhl Brooks, Threads of Useful Learning: Westtown School Samplers (West Chester, Pennsylvania: Westtown School, 2015); and Linda Baumgarten, “Vase-Pattern Wholecloth Quilts in the Eighteenth-Century Quaker Community,” Uncoverings 36 (December 2015): 7–34, identifies the design of the patterns on quilts and petticoats as the work of Philadelphia schoolteacher Ann [End Page 35] Marsh. Other works include Hannah Frances Rumball, “The Relinquishment of Plain Dress: British Quaker Women’s Abandonment of Plain Quaker Attire, 1860–1914” (PhD thesis, University of Brighton, 2016). Terry Tickhill Terrell, “The Elizabeth Stanton Inscribed Quaker Quilt,” Uncoverings 36 (December 2015): 35–60, traces the names inscribed on a quilt, including members of Still-water Monthly Meeting. John Mulcahy, “Burtown House and Friends,” Irish Arts Review 30, no. 3 (September 2013): 124–127, examines the connections of the Burtown House, built ca. 1710 in Kildare, Ireland, and its association with Mary Leadbeater and other Quakers. Mark Reinberger and Elizabeth McLean, The Philadelphia Country House: Architecture and Landscape in Colonial America (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015), note the influence of Quaker values on some houses. Conor Lucey, “Owen Biddle and Philadelphia’s Real Estate Market, 1798–1806,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 75, no. 1 (March 2016): 25–47, includes consideration of Quakerism on Biddle’s career. Amanda E. Herbert, Female Alliances: Gender, Identity, and Friendship in Early Modern Britain (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014), contains a chapter on “Yokemates: Female Quaker Companionship in the British Atlantic World.” Anna Vaughan Kett, “Quaker Women and Anti-Slavery Activism: Eleanor Clark and the Free Labour Cotton Depot in Street,” Quaker Studies 19, no. 1 (September 2014): 137–156, explores the activities of British Quaker Eleanor Clark, who ran a shop selling “free produce” cottons, and how that illuminates Quaker women’s anti-slavery activity. Three studies...