| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.1

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.1 | The History Cooperative

Elizabeth Elkin Grammer. Some Wild Visions: Autobiographies by Female Itinerant Evangelists in Nineteenth Century America. (Religion in America.) New York: Oxford University Press. 2003. pp. x, 211. $39.95.
Elizabeth Elkin Grammer examines the published autobiographies of seven female evangelists—Jarena Lee, Zilpha Elaw, Nancy Towle, Lydia Sexton, Laura Haviland, Julia Foote, and Amanda Berry Smith—whose lives and careers spanned the nineteenth century. Her book is a work of literary analysis, not history per se, but her insights are well grounded in the social, cultural, and religious history of the period. She opens some interesting windows for historians on the role that reading and the written word played in the development of a female consciousness of self and illuminates the empowerment that women found in the rise of the Holiness movement within evangelical Christianity.	1
After laying out the religious landscape of nineteenth-century America, Grammer introduces us to the evangelists. We learn that race as well as gender played a role in their lives, as four of them were African American. Grammer acknowledges that white and black women experienced gender discrimination differently and addresses this issue throughout the book. Nevertheless, she is more interested in the women's similarities than their differences, and she emphasizes what their autobiographies and writing styles have in common.	. . .

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