| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.1

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Book Review

Daughters of Light: Quaker Women Preaching and Prophesying in the Colonies and Abroad, 1700–1775. By Rebecca Larson. (New York: Knopf, 1999. x, 399 pp. $35.00, isbn 0-679-43762-2.)

Despite the importance of Quaker women's public preaching on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, these unusual eighteenth-century women are often overlooked in the general conversation about early American women. According to Rebecca Larson, colonial historians' typical focus on Puritan women, in particular, tends to obscure our vision of Quaker women, who could play public, authoritative roles and offer a very different model of early American womanhood. Larson invites us to take a better look. Her thorough and highly readable book, Daughters of Light, describes Quaker women's public presence and power, a power authorized by the Holy Spirit and widely recognized among men as well as women and by Quakers and non-Quakers alike. . . .

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