Quaker Women: Personal Life, Memory and Radicalism in the Lives of Women Friends, 1780-1930 (Women's and Gender History)

Filling a gap in the current literature by focusing on lower middle class women, this is an innovative study of kinship and other networks between Quaker women from the late eighteenth century to early twentieth century. Focusing on specific case studies of the lives of individual Quaker women Sandra Holton introduces important concepts and theories relating to women's lives during this period, Written by a well respected and pioneering historian of women, Quaker Women examines this particular group of women who provide brilliant archival material, which many women's historians are keen to know about and to which Holtaon has sole access. For new information and insight into the lives of Quaker women, students and scholars will find no better book to fulfil their needs than Holton's Quaker Women.Sandra Stanley Holton is the author of 'Quaker Women: Personal Life, Memory and Radicalism in the Lives of Women Friends, 1780-1930 (Women's and Gender History)', published 2007 under ISBN 9780415281430 and ISBN 0415281431.