Elspeth Graham

The full title is Satan his Methods and Malice Baffled. A narrative of God's gracious dealings with that choice Christian Mrs. Hannah Allen, (afterwards married to Mr. Hatt,) reciting the great advantages the devil made...

She was thirty-one when she died; her text deals with her experience before she married, at a fairly young age. She called her manuscript The Record of my Consolations, and the Meditations of my...

The autobiography is only a fragment of the volume. The latest writing included dates from June and early July 1690, very shortly before Vokins died. The volume was reprinted in 1871, and...

She published at Oxford. Her full title was Susanna's Apologie against the Elders, or A Vindication of Susanna Parr, one of those two women lately excommunicated by Mr Lewis Stycley, and his Church, in...

The reprintings show the impact that this text had on contemporary Quakers . Anthologists Elspeth Graham , Elaine Hobby , Hilary Hinds , and Helen Wilcox call it as much a text of love as of resistance.

The specialised nature of AW 's texts has not prevented their featuring in the project, dating from the late twentieth century, of recovering early women's voices. Elspeth Graham , Hilary Hinds , Elaine Hobby ...