Articles and Publications

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Articles and Publications by Christopher Densmore and Barbara Addison Major scholarly studies on seventeenth century Quakerism include Meredith Baldwin Weddle, Walking in the Way ofPeace: QuakerPacifism in the Seventeenth Century (Oxford University Press, 2001), focusing on New England Quaker response to King Phillip's War, 1675-1676; Adrian Davies, The Quakers in English Society, 1655-1725 (Oxford University Press, 2000), and Douglas Gwyn, Seekers Found: Atonement in Early QuakerExperience (Wallingford, PA: Pendle Hill, 2000). Gwyn's coverage begins with Caspar Schwenckfeld and Sebastian Franck in the 1520s and 1 53Os before moving onto the Seekers, Ranters and Quakers fromthe 1640s to 1 700, andconcludes with observations onthe modern state ofQuakerism. Stefano Villani used unpublished Inquisition records in Lisbon for English Quaker Ann Gargill's travels in Portugal in the 1650s in "Una quacchera a Lisbona: i Viaggi e gli Scritti di Ann Gargill,"Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore diPisa- Classe diLettere eFilosofia, ser. IV, vol. 4: 1 (1999): 2478 1 . Mary K. Geiter, "William Penn and Jacobitism: A Smoking Gun?," Historical Research [Great Britain] 73:181 (2000): 213-18, examines Penn's role during the Glorious Revolution based on a 1691 deposition by Thomas White, now in the Huntington Library. Nuala Zahedieh, "Making Mercantilism Work: London Merchants and the Atlantic Trade in the Seventeenth Century," in the Transactions ofthe Royal Historical Society 9 (1999): 143-158, based on London port books of 1686, includes a discussion of Quakers as part of the colonial merchant class. Recent dissertations on Quakers in seventeenth century Britain include Gary M. Knarr, Watchmen ofEngland: Early Quaker Theology and Social Protest (Ph.D. thesis, Queens University [Canada], 1998), David E. Schmidt, "Till ChristJesus Be Exalted": QuakerPoliticalPamphlets During the Restoration ofthe Rump Parliament (Ph.D. thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1 998) and Cathy D.N. Ream,MargaretFellasEducator: a Woman Who Learned and Led (University ofKansas, 1998). Julie Sievers, "Awakening the Inner Light: Elizabeth Ashbridge and the Transformation of Quaker Community," Early American Literature 36:2 (2001): 235-262, investigates theplace ofQuakers inthe social andreligious culture of the mid-seventeenth century. Peter Kafer, "Charles Brockden Brown andthe Pleasures ofUnsanctifiedImagination, 1787-1793," William and Mary Quarterly , 3rd ser. 57:3 (July 2000): 543-68, places Brown's writings in a Quaker context and judges Brown's Wieland a "profoundly Quaker work." English Quaker John Fothergill's contributions to medicine are covered in "Dr. John Fothergill and Eighteenth Century Medicine," by G.S. Plaut,JournalofMedicalBiography [GreatBritain] 7:4 (1999): 192-96. 78Quaker History Silas B. Weeks, NewEngland QuakerMeetinghouses : PastandPresent (Richmond, Indiana: Friends United Press, 2001), is a comprehensive survey, organized by state and locality, ofmeeting houses, both those built forthepurpose andbuildingsusedby Friends, with information onbuildings no longer standing, on burial grounds and meeting history. A different approach is taken in Seth Beeson Hinshaw's The Evolution of Quaker Meeting Houses in North America, 1670-2000 (M.S. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 2001) , where the focus is on the historical development of meeting house forms from English prototypes, to a mid-eighteenth century "Quaker Ideal Plan" and then how meeting houses and churches evolved among the major branches of the Society of Friends. The presence of a delegation of Friends from Philadelphia Yearly Meeting is noted in G. Peter Jemison and Anna M. Schein (eds.), Treaty of Canandaigua 1794: 200 Years of Treaty Relations Between the Iroquois Confederacy and the United States (Santa Fe, New Mexico: Clear Light Publishers, 2000). "Rowland T. Robinson, Rokeby, and the Underground Railroad in Vermont," by Jane Williamson, Vermont History, vol. 69, Supplement (Winter 2001), 7-3 1 and "Being Good: An Abolitionist Family Attempts to Live Up to Its Own Standards," by Ronald Salomon, 32-47, draw on the family letters of Thomas (1796-1879) and Rachel Gilpin Robinson (1 799-1 862), radical Hicksite Quakers ofFerrisburgh, Vermont. Abolition is also the theme of The Religious World ofAnti-Slavery Women by Ann M. Speicher (Syracuse University Press, 2000), covering Sarah and Angelina Grimké, Lucretia Mott, Abby Kelley Foster, who all were at one time Quakers, and Sallie Holley, who was not. ThyAffectionate Friend: the Letters ofElias Hicks and William Poole by Paul Buckley (M.A. Th. thesis, Earlham School of Religion, 2001), contains...