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...

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Main Author: Holton, Sandra Stanley (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: London [u.a.] Routledge 2007
In:Year: 2007
Reviews:Quaker women. Personal life, memory and radicalism in the lives of women Friends, 1780–1930. By Sandra Stanley Holton. (Women's and Gender History.) Pp. xiii+290 incl. 15 ills. London–New York: Routledge, 2007. £24.99 (paper). 978 0 415 28143 0; 978 0 415 28144 7 (2008) (Rosman, Doreen)
Edition:1. publ.
Series/Journal:Womenś and gender history
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Quakers / Woman / Social position / History 1780-1930
B Quaker woman / Religion / Family life / Political action
B Great Britain
Further subjects:B Great Britain
B Quaker women History 20th century
B History 1780-1930
B Quaker women History 19th century
B Quaker women History 20th century
B Biography
B Quaker women Biography
B Quaker women History 19th century
B Quaker woman
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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
ISBN:0415281431