Contents
Acknowledgments
Note on the TextWebb and Her World: An IntroductionWorks Prepared for Publication
A Letter from Elizabeth Webb to Anthony William Boehm, with His Answer
Some Meditations with Some Observations upon the Revelations of Jesus Christ
Personal Writings
A Short Account of My Voyage into America with Mary Rogers, My Companion
Short Memorial
Letter to Her Children, August 24, 1724Suggestions for Further ReadingIndex
Rachel Cope is Associate Professor of Church History at Brigham Young University and coeditor of Family Life in Britain and America, 1690–1820.
Zachary McLeod Hutchins is Assistant Professor of English at Colorado State University and author of Inventing Eden: Primitivism, Millennialism, and the Making of New England.
“A very important volume, bringing to light a forgotten Quaker
minister, adding to the new and necessary scholarship on Quaker
women’s writings, and helping rewrite our understanding of
apocalyptic thought within eighteenth-century Quakerism. It is
required reading for all Quaker studies scholars.”—Ben Pink
Dandelion, author of The Quakers: A Very Short Introduction
“This extraordinary collection of mostly unpublished Quaker
documents fills a major gap in early American writings by women and
is a major contribution to early American archival scholarship.
Webb’s keen observations range from personal narratives, letters,
and travelogues to a unique commentary on the book of Revelation,
and the introduction beautifully situates these documents in their
historical and intellectual contexts.”—Reiner Smolinski, author of
The Threefold Paradise of Cotton Mather
“Rachel Cope and Zachary McLeod Hutchins have done a major service
to scholars of early American history, women’s history, and
Quakerism in reclaiming for us Quaker minister Elizabeth Webb. Her
writings provide us with a marvelous view into the spiritual and
interior life of a remarkable woman equally at home on both sides
of the colonial Atlantic.”—Thomas Hamm, author of The Quakers in
America
“Cope and Hutchins’s collection and annotation of Webb’s works is
an important contribution to Quaker literature. This publication
will offer scholars and others a rare glimpse into a female
eighteenth-century Quaker preacher.”—Heather E. Barry Journal of
British Studies
“Scholars of Quaker and religious studies, early modern
transatlantic history, colonial American literature, and women’s
life writing and literary history will welcome The Writings of
Elizabeth Webb: A Quaker Missionary in America, 1697–1726, the
first volume to collect this once well-known Quaker minister’s
published and unpublished works.”—Lisa M. Logan Legacy
“The Writings of Elizabeth Webb is a fascinating addition to early
American and transatlantic literature and will enhance classroom
discussions and scholarship on early American history and
literature, women’s studies, and religious studies.”—Jennifer
Desiderio Early American Literature
“Cope and Hutchins have produced a timely and valuable compilation
of one woman’s writings, sure to be of interest to specialists but
also readily accessible and useful to those in the larger fields of
American religion and early American history.”—Rachel Wheeler
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