Quaker Women, 1800–1920

Robynne Rogers Healey is Professor of History and Codirector of the Gender Studies Institute at Trinity Western University. She is the editor of Quakerism in the Atlantic World, 1690–1830, also published by Penn State University Press. Carole Dale Spencer was Associate Professor of Christian Spirituality at Earlham School of Religion and Adjunct Professor of Spiritual Formation at Portland Seminary of George Fox University. She is the author of Holiness: The Soul of Quakerism; An Historical Analysis of the Theology of Holiness in the Quaker Tradition.

• Foreword by Janet ScottList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionRobynne Rogers Healey and Carole Dale SpencerPart 1: Engaging Conflict and Separations1. Hicksite Women in the Long Nineteenth CenturyThomas D. Hamm2. Elizabeth Robson, Transatlantic Women Ministers, and the Hicksite-Orthodox SchismRobynne Rogers Healey3. Women in the World of George W. Taylor: The Public and Private Worlds of Orthodox Quaker WomenJulie L. HolcombPart 2: Engaging Diversity4. Vocation, Religious Identity, and the Abolitionist Networks of Sarah Mapps Douglass and Sojourner TruthStephen W. Angell5. “She Hath Done What She Could”: The Charitable Antislavery Work of Eleanor Clark of StreetAnna Vaughan Kett6. Ruth Esther Smith (1870–1947): Foremother to Friends in Central AmericaJennifer M. BuckPart 3: Engaging Sacred and Secular Literature7. An Unforeseen Consequence of the Orthodox-Hicksite Schism (1827–1828): The Fiction Writing of Amelia Opie, Helen Hunt Jackson, Mary Howitt, and Mary Hallock FooteIsabelle Cosgrave8. A Friendly Daughter: Lucy Barton’s (Ex-)Quaker Identity, Cultural Negotiations, and Authorial InheritanceNancy Jiwon Cho9. The “Mystic Sense” of Scripture as Taught by Holiness Quaker Hannah Whitall SmithCarole Dale SpencerPart 4: Engaging the Wider Social and Cultural World10. “Radicalism Within Boundaries”: Excavating the Contribution of Women Quakers to Radical Reform in Britain and Their Transnational Networks in the Nineteenth CenturyJoan Allen and Richard C. Allen11. “We Must Hope That the Moderates with Their Quiet Attire Are the Rising Section”: British Women Friends’ Relinquishment of Plain DressHannah Rumball12. “The Joy of Doing Right”: The Humanitarian Work of Doctor Hilda Clark During the First World WarLinda PalfreemanAfterword by Emma Lapsansky-WernerSelected BibliographyList of ContributorsIndex

“This volume of essays on Quaker women, covering the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, shows how far we have come not just in equalizing our treatment of the past, but in deepening our understanding of what happened and how. Certainly we meet familiar figures like Sojourner Truth, Helen Hunt Jackson, and Hannah Whitall Smith, but the authors place them in new and fresh contexts, while introducing a broad new cast of characters.”—Margaret Bendroth Quaker History