Taylor and Francis Gill, C: Women in the Seventeenth-Century Quaker Community

'... makes a truly original contribution to the field of women's writing by situating Quaker women's authorship fully in its historical and bibliographical context; Gill’s work is evidence based and historically grounded, and advances carefully nuanced readings of the textual representation of sex differences. Particularly impressive is her astute analysis of print as an agent of identity and her thoughtful analysis of varied kinds of strategies of authorship. Her concentration on the 1650s enables us to see the emergence of a specific group and the struggles over authority, representation and gender that this entails.' Dr Danielle E. Clarke, Senior Lecturer in English, University College Dublin 'This carefully focused study augments prior scholarship on early modern women writers and on the copiously publishing Society of Friends... Especially helpful to other scholars will be the extensive bibliography of Quaker publications, with cross-referencing for each contributor to collectively authored texts and notations about signers of petitions. Gill's attention to women printers and to the material conditions of the book trade is also of particular value.' Renaissance Quarterly 'This is a book which genuinely moves our understanding of Quaker writings in general and women's writings in particular a step further... An extensive cross-referenced bibliography is provided which lists men and women's involvement as contributors as well as authors to Quaker pamphlets, itself a valuable resource for further research. The scholarship is rigorous, the writing is elegant and this is a book that will be both enjoyed and appreciated by historians, literary critics and scholars in seventeenth-century radicalism.' Quaker Studies '... this book offers an engaging introduction to the ways in which women wrote as Quakers and their unique contribution to 'writing in the community'.' Early Modern Literary Studies ’... a good introduction to the contributions of women to Quak