| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.3

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Book Review

Shaking the Faith: Women, Family, and Mary Marshall Dyer's Anti-Shaker Campaign, 1815–1867. By Elizabeth A. De Wolfe. (New York: Palgrave, 2002. xiv, 233 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-312-29503-0.)

What happens when a married woman in the early nineteenth century—who by law and custom must depend upon her husband for her support and social standing—becomes estranged from that husband because of his commitment to a religious sect? Worse still, what happens when her children join that sect? What recourse does she have? These are some of the questions that Elizabeth A. De Wolfe invites the reader to answer by following her through the twists and turns of the dramatic life and times of Mary Marshall Dyer, a Shaker apostate. Shaking the Faith joins the emerging field of microhistories, which seek to understand the past through the experiences of an individual. Part biography, part social history, part history of the book, Shaking the Faith examines Dyer's decades-long campaign against the Shakers in order to illuminate the roles of women, family, and religious belief. The result is a history that does an excellent job of re-creating a particular time and place through a cast of determined—and frequently contentious—individuals.

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