REVIEWS: Witness, Warning, and Prophecy: Quaker Women's Writing, 1655–1700. Teresa Feroli, and Margaret Olofson Thickstun, eds. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series 60; Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 527. Toronto: Iter Press; Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2018. xxii + 414 pp. $59.95

• Published in: Renaissance Quarterly Vol. 72; no. 2; pp. 722 - 723
• Main Author: Adcock, Rachel
• Format: Book Review
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 01.07.2019
• Subjects: 17th century; Early modern period; Historical text analysis; Poetry; Quakers; Reading; Religion; Women; Writing; Europe; Arizona
• DOI: 10.1017/rqx.2019.212
• ISSN: 0034-4338

Key critical and contextual sources for wider reading are indicated in footnotes and in the work's extensive bibliography, and the reader is elegantly introduced to Quaker parlance (“inner light,” “friend,” “convince”) through an engaging chronological account of the movement's growth and practices. [...]while it is well known that Quaker women wrote narratives of conviction and suffering, addresses and petitions to those in authority, and tracts on Quaker doctrine and practice (all of which are well represented here), less remarked upon forms are also present: “On the Sight of a Skull,” a devotional lyric poem by Mary Mollineux (1669, published 1702), once imprisoned in Lancaster prison for her faith, is reproduced here and compared briefly with Donne's Holy Sonnet 10, “Death be not proud” (84–86). There are obvious benefits to reproducing, introducing, and annotating works, some of which are not available through Early English Books Online (e.g., Priscilla Cotton's As I Was in the Prison-House [1655]), or where the editors have checked EEBO copies against those not available on the platform.