Strength in Weakness: Writings of Eighteenth-century Quaker Women (Sacred Literature Series) - Tapa blanda

Quaker women in the eighteenth century were carrying on the faith and activity of their seventeenth-century forebears, but as a group their lives and writings have been neglected in modern times by both Quaker and other historians. Gil Skidmore brings together a rich array of letters, spiritual autobiographies, journals, and memoirs to put the lives and concerns of these women into context.

Gil Skidmore, who is a Quaker, has spent many years researching the lives and writings of early Quakers. She has worked as a professional librarian in various specialist and academic libraries, including Friends House Library in London, and has been editorially involved in the Journal of the Friends Historical Society. Her publications include Turning Inside Out: An Exploration of Spiritual Autobiography (1996), Dear Friends and Sisters: 25 Short Biographies of Quaker Women (1998) and Dear Friends and Brethren: 25 Short Biographies of Quaker Men (2000). She is also a contributor to the New Dictionary of National Biography and author of a number of articles in Quaker journals, including Friends Quarterly. Gil Skidmore is currently writing the centenary history of Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre in Birmingham and is also working as the research officer for the Location Register for 20th-Century Literary Manuscripts and Letters project at the University of Reading.