Quaker women
Subtitle: emotional life, memory and radicalism in the lives of women Friends, 1800-1920
By: Sandra Stanley Holton.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415281430; 9780415281447
Subjects: Quaker women -- History -- 19th century; Quaker women -- History -- 20th century; Quaker women -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Margaret wood (1783; title: 1859), Quaker spinster and shopkeeper; title: Kinship, money and worldliness: Margaret Wood and "A snug independence"; title: Rachel Priestman, a "Public Friend"; title: Marriages, births and deaths: the formation of the Priestman-Bright circle; title: Religion, family and public life; title: Sisters, marriage and friendship; title: The single life: education, religion and reform among the Priestman-Bright circle; title: Family, friendship and politics; title: Marriage, money and the networked family; title: Helen Clark, family life and politics; title: The changing order: family, friendship and politics in the late nineteenth century; title: Suffragism and democracy; title: The Priestman-Bright circle and women's history.