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- catalog abstract "Setting out to write a common religious narrative encouraging conversion to Quakerism, Elizabeth Ashbridge (1713-1755), a prominent Quaker minister, produced a document called "Remarkable Experiences." In it she not only recorded her religious search but also told of the highly unusual events that had shaped her life: eloping at fourteen, being kidnapped, preventing a shipboard mutiny, enduring a harsh term of indentured servitude, and suffering relentless religious persecution. Her experiences as an English immigrant, a servant, an itinerant, a Quaker, and a woman placed her far outside the colonial cultural mainstream. In Peculiar Power, Cristine Levenduski, working outward from Ashbridge's autobiography, reconstructs the social, religious, and historical forces that Ashbridge both resisted and turned to her advantage. She argues that Ashbridge's otherness - more extreme even than the Quaker community's self-consciously orchestrated "peculiarity"--Allowed her to become an influential figure in early American culture. Drawing power from her marginalized position, Ashbridge became in her thirties a respected leader among Quakers, thereby breaking the "suffer and be still" silence imposed on eighteenth-century women.".
- catalog contributor b9191056.
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-168) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction -- "Better be hanged" -- Quakers, preachers, and public women -- Power and prestige as a public Friend -- Narrating a life of "uncommon occurrences" -- Gender, genre, and cultural positions -- Elizabeth Ashbridge and John Woolman -- Elizabeth Ashbridge's literary daughters -- The Quaker woman in nineteenth-century fiction.".
- catalog description "Setting out to write a common religious narrative encouraging conversion to Quakerism, Elizabeth Ashbridge (1713-1755), a prominent Quaker minister, produced a document called "Remarkable Experiences." In it she not only recorded her religious search but also told of the highly unusual events that had shaped her life: eloping at fourteen, being kidnapped, preventing a shipboard mutiny, enduring a harsh term of indentured servitude, and suffering relentless religious persecution. Her experiences as an English immigrant, a servant, an itinerant, a Quaker, and a woman placed her far outside the colonial cultural mainstream. In Peculiar Power, Cristine Levenduski, working outward from Ashbridge's autobiography, reconstructs the social, religious, and historical forces that Ashbridge both resisted and turned to her advantage. She argues that Ashbridge's otherness - more extreme even than the Quaker community's self-consciously orchestrated "peculiarity"--Allowed her to become an influential figure in early American culture. Drawing power from her marginalized position, Ashbridge became in her thirties a respected leader among Quakers, thereby breaking the "suffer and be still" silence imposed on eighteenth-century women.".
- catalog extent "x, 171 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Peculiar power.".
- catalog identifier "1560986700 (case : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Peculiar power.".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press,".
- catalog relation "Peculiar power.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "289.6/092 B 20".
- catalog subject "Ashbridge, Elizabeth, 1713-1755.".
- catalog subject "BX7795.A7 L48 1996".
- catalog subject "Quaker women United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Quakers United States Clergy Biography.".
- catalog subject "Society of Friends United States Clergy Biography.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction -- "Better be hanged" -- Quakers, preachers, and public women -- Power and prestige as a public Friend -- Narrating a life of "uncommon occurrences" -- Gender, genre, and cultural positions -- Elizabeth Ashbridge and John Woolman -- Elizabeth Ashbridge's literary daughters -- The Quaker woman in nineteenth-century fiction.".
- catalog title "Peculiar power : a Quaker woman preacher in eighteenth-century America / Cristine Levenduski.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".