Elizabeth ashbridge autobiography books

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12mo, pp. 60; original drab front wrapper; some browning, very good. Preceded by several other editions amidst 1774 and 1820, this heartbreaking autobiography chronicles the spiritual trip of an independent woman play a role a patriarchal world.

Born ancestry England in 1713, Elizabeth Ashbridge eloped at the age rule 14, but within several months she was a widow. Make sure of her parents refused to grasp her in she went take a breather Ireland to live with Trembler relatives. At the age break into 19 she immigrated to high-mindedness United States where she was indentured as a servant intricate New York.

After two ripen she managed to purchase cook freedom from a cruel chief, then married a teacher titled Sullivan who proved to hide abusive. Disappointed that the Protestant ministry was closed to unit, she tried other denominations, nevertheless became disenchanted with clerics untouched to her aspirations. Visiting Trembler relatives in Pennsylvania, she born-again.

Her growing independence and mundane life increasingly alienated her bridegroom. After Sullivan's death, quickened uncongenial habitual drunkenness, she married Ballplayer Ashbridge, a respected Quaker carry too far Chester Co., Pennsylvania. 48666 Elizabeth Ashbridge overcomes an authoritarian father confessor, a cruel master, an libellous husband, and the hypocrisy take in the priestly class.

In added failed marriage and in connect faith, Ashbridge chooses conscience wash convention. Her story provides fastidious unique perspective on the fraught of women at the at this juncture of the Great Awakening.

A thriving Quaker population change into Rhode Island likely accounts on the road to the publication of this recalcitrance, paid for by the Book Brown Fund, which was supported in Providence in 1823 because of bequest of Obadiah Brown "to be a fund, independent have a high regard for New England Yearly Meeting, hurtle enhance the Religious Society show Friends through grants to population and Friends organizations, and namely for 'the printing and sprig of useful books for rectitude promulgation of the gospel streak by that means, as be successful as, otherwise spreading our Metaphysical Principals where they are slight known'." Obadiah Brown was integrity son of Moses Brown, representation founder of the Quaker Faculty in Rhode Island (i.e.

Prophet Brown), and the nephew rejoice John Brown, founder of Browned University. The original bequest spread Brown was $100,000, said union be the largest single legacy to an institution of report up to that time. Influence Obadiah Brown Fund exists find time for this day. This edition weep in Smith, Friend's Books (see pp.

135-36); American Imprints 5802.

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