From Unnatural Fanatics to "Fair Quakers": How English Mainstream Culture Transformed Women Friends between 1650 and 1740.

Quaker women's plain clothing acquired a special significance in the eighteenth century. This article examines its meaning through an analysis of various kinds of cultural products, including plays, periodicals such as the Spectator, and novels such as Samuel Richardson's Pamela (1740). It also addr...

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Publicado en:Eighteenth Century Fiction Vol. 31; no. 4; pp. 705 - 726
Autor principal: Acosta, Ana M.
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Publicado: University of Toronto Press Summer2019
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