Mother's First-Born Daughters: Early Shaker Writings on Women and Religion.

Abstract

Foreword by Catherine L. Albanese and Stephen J. Stein Acknowledgments A Note on Manuscript Sources and Abbreviations General Introduction 1. OA Mother in DivinityO: Ann Lee Imagery and Narrative, 1808-1851 Introduction Healing Stories by Women (1808) Testimonies of Ann LeeOs Followers (1816) Ann LeeOs Own Personal Experience Narratives, as Remembered by Her Followers (1816) Narrative of the Journey through New England (1816) WomenOs Testimonies in Defense of Ann Lee (1827) Jemima BlanchardOs Stories as Recalled by Roxalana Grosvenor (1836) Elizabeth WoodOs Testimony (1851) 2. OYour Parent in the GospelO: The Sayings and Correspondence of Lucy Wright Introduction Words Spoken by Mother Lucy...March 25th, 1815 Accounts of Two Visits with Mother Lucy Wright Sayings of Mother Lucy at Watervliet (1816) Sayings of Mother Lucy from Eldress Betsy HarrisonOs Book Counsel and Instruction Given by Mother Lucy... Mother LucyOs Last Visit to Watervliet Selected Correspondence 3. OPoor Child in a Distant LandO: Selected correspondence of Shaker Sisters, West and East, 1805-1835 Introduction Selected Correspondence 4. OThe Heavens Are OpenO: WomenOs Perspectives on Midcentury Spiritualism Introduction The Onset of the Revival (Watervliet Church Family Meeting Journal, (1838- 1840) A Visionary Dream Concerning Ann Eliza Goodwin (1840) Mother LucyOs Word to the Sisters (1841) Visits from ALien Spirits at Watervliet (Church Family Meeting Journal, 1842-1843) The Hancock Sweeping Gift (1843) Hancock Mountain Meeting (1843) Holy Mother WisdomOs Fold (n.d.) Paulina BateOs Divine Book of Holy and Eternal Wisdom (1849) Mary HazzardOs OPrecious Crumbs of Heavenly Food...O (1839-1842) New YearOs Verses for the New Lebanon Sisters (1846) A Selective Bibliography of Published Sources Index