In the late eighteenth century a small Shaker community travelled to America under the leadership of ‘Mother Ann’ Lee. The American communities they founded were based on ideals of pacifism, celibacy and gender equality. The texts included in this edition come from first-hand accounts of life in the Shaker communities during the nineteenth century.
By:
GlendyneR Wergland,
Christian Goodwillie
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 997g
ISBN: 9781032918891
ISBN 10: 1032918896
Pages: 540
Publication Date: 14 October 2024
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Calvin Green, ‘Biographic Memoir’ MS (1861), continued; Rhoda Blake, ‘A Sketch of the Life and Experience of Rhoda Blake’ (1864); Freegift Wells, Watervliet, New York (1865); Ruth Scott Testimony, as related by Freegift Wells, Watervliet, New York (1865), excerpt; Jane E. S. Blanchard, Enfield, New Hampshire (1868); Marie Wheeler, ‘A Biographical Sketch’ (c. 1870); Autobiographical Letter of Sarah Bates to Ministry, New Lebanon, New York (1870); Cassandana Brewster, ‘Book of Remembrance’, Hancock, Massachusetts (1870); Hannah Bronson Obituary, Canterbury, New Hampshire (1870); Sarah Bates, ‘A Few Words, of My Belief in a Christian Life, or Shakerism’, New Lebanon, New York (1871); Eliza Sharp, ‘Experience of a Veteran Sister’, New Lebanon, New York (1879); Giles Bushnell Avery, Autobiography [written in 1880] (1891); Mary Antoinette Doolittle, Autobiography (1880); Jane D. Knight, Brief Narrative of Events Touching Various Reforms (1880); Elmira Allard, ‘Autobiography’, Enfield, New Hampshire (1885); George M. Wickersham, How I Came to be a Shaker (1891); [Julia Johnson], ‘Reminiscences of Shaker Life’, Tyringham and Hancock, Massachusetts (1899); Julia Johnson, ‘Among the Shakers’ (c. 1889); Julia Johnson, ‘Tyringham, Mass.’ (1899); Mary Hazard, ‘Autobiography’, Shaker Manifesto (1899); Abraham Perkins, ‘Autobiography’, Enfield, New Hampshire (1899); Daniel Fraser, Witness of Daniel Fraser ([1901]); Henry Clay Blinn, ‘Autobiographical Notes’, In Memoriam Elder Henry C. Blinn 1824–1902 (1905); Alonzo Hollister, ‘Reminiscences by a Soldier of the Cross’ (1907); Mary L. Wilson, ‘Notes about Sarah F. Wilson’, Canterbury, New Hampshire (1935)
