| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.1

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Kathryn Carlisle Schwartz. Baptist Faith in Action: The Private Writings of Maria Baker Taylor, 1813–1895. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. 2003. Pp. xxx, 399. $39.95.
Maria Baker Taylor was the granddaughter of Richard Furman, South Carolina's leading Baptist minister and theologian. (Furman University was named for him.) According to Kathryn Carlisle Schwartz, Taylor's great-granddaughter, that Baptist faith was the biggest influence in Taylor's life. In this fine addition to the literature of southern women's history, Schwartz has sifted through some 650,000 words of Taylor's "private writings" (letters, diaries, poetry, and unpublished essays), as well as a few pieces that appeared in the Baptist press, to give us a vivid picture of a remarkable figure.	1
Schwartz warns in her introduction that although her collection of Taylor's writings "may occasionally bear a superficial resemblance to a standard biography, the product remains a documentary edition" (p. xxiv); Taylor's words (one-tenth of her voluminous output), rather than Schwartz's occasionally extensive editorial comments, carry the book.	. . .

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