Women's Speaking Justified and Other Pamphlets

by Margaret Fell
edited by Jane Donawerth and Rebecca M. Lush

Iter Press, 2018
eISBN: 978-0-86698-748-6 | Paper: 978-0-86698-595-6
Library of Congress Classification BX7795.F425A25 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification 289.6092

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

Margaret Fell (1614–1702), one of the co-founders of the Society of Friends and a religious activist, was a prolific writer and distributor of Quaker pamphlets. This volume offers eight texts that span her writing career and represent her range of writing: autobiography, epistle or public letter, examination or record of a trial, letter to the king, and argument for women’s preaching. These selections also document Fell’s contributions to Friends’ theology, exemplify seventeenth-century women’s English-language literacy, illustrate Fell’s theories of biblical reading, and exhibit the common qualities of Quaker rhetoric.

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REVIEWS

"This wonderful, eye-opening volume enables Margaret Fell finally to take her rightful place, center stage, as one of the founders of the Society of Friends (or Quakers). Tireless and fearless, she spoke her truth to Friends and to their opponents — including the king — for many decades, enduring periods of harsh imprisonment as a result. This selection of her writings, comprising many genres, reveals her to have been an adept and assured rhetorician, by turns admonitory and exultant, measured and mystical, prophetic and practical. The editors’ judicious and meticulous scholarship opens fascinating perspectives onto Fell’s life and work for scholars and students alike."

— Hilary Hinds, Lancaster University

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Illustrations xv
Abbreviations xvii
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction 1
A Relation of Margaret Fell, Her Birth, Life, Testimony, and Sufferings 55
To All the Professors of the World 69
A Testimony of the Touchstone for All Professions 85
A Loving Salutation to the Seed of Abraham among the Jews 103
The Examination of Margaret Fell 137
A Letter Sent to the King 151
Women’s Speaking Justified, Proved, and Allowed of by the Scriptures 157
The Daughter of Zion Awakened 177
Bibliography 199
Index 213

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