Quaker women: personal life, memory and radicalism in the lives of women friends, 1780 - 1930
Introduction -- Margaret Wood (1783--1859), Quaker spinster and shopkeeper -- Kinship, money and worldliness : Margaret Wood and "A snug independence" -- Rachel Priestman (1791-1854) : a "public Friend" -- Marriages, births and deaths : the formation of the Priestman-Bright circl...
| Summary: | Introduction -- Margaret Wood (1783--1859), Quaker spinster and shopkeeper -- Kinship, money and worldliness : Margaret Wood and "A snug independence" -- Rachel Priestman (1791-1854) : a "public Friend" -- Marriages, births and deaths : the formation of the Priestman-Bright circle -- Religion, family and public life -- Sisters, marriage and friendship -- The single life : Anna Maria Priestman (1828-1914) and Margaret Wheeler (1817-1905) -- Family, friendship and politics : Helen Priestman Bright (1840-1927) -- Marriage, money and the networked family -- Helen Clark, family life and politics -- The changing order : family, friendship and politics in the late nineteenth century -- Suffragism and democracy -- The Priestman-Bright circle and women's history |
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| ISBN: | 0415281431 |