Women's Speaking Justified and Other Pamphlets (Volume 65) (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series)

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.

The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe - The Toronto Series, volume 65

Jane Donawerth, professor emerita of the University of Maryland, is author of Shakespeare and the Sixteenth-Century Study of Language and Conversational Rhetoric: The Rise and Fall of a Women’s Tradition, 1600–1900, and co-translator of Madeleine de Scudéry’s Selected Letters, Orations, and Rhetorical Dialogues.
 

Rebecca M. Lush is associate professor of Literature and Writing Studies at California State University San Marcos. She has published on Aphra Behn, James Fenimore Cooper, and Gerald Vizenor in journals including Studies in American Indian Literatures and Early Modern Women.