| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 105.1

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Catherine A. Brekus. Strangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740–1845. (Gender and American Culture.) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 1998. Pp. x, 466. Cloth $49.95, paper $17.95.

This volume recovers the lost history of female preaching from the first Great Awakening in 1740 through the revivals prior to the Civil War. In her examination of religious periodicals and popular religious books of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Catherine A. Brekus found reference to more than one hundred evangelical women preachers, nearly all of whom had been written out of later denominational histories and subsequently forgotten. In rediscovering this sizable cohort, Brekus corrects the view that American evangelicalism was completely dominated by male preachers. With regard to the wider history of American culture, she contributes to the growing realization that the boundaries between public and private were less fixed during this time period, and women were not as shut off from public life as historians had previously imagined. . . .

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