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Early Modern · 1666
Women's Speaking Justified
Margaret Fell · 1614–1702
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What it is
A scriptural argument that women may preach — from the women at the tomb, from Priscilla, and from the claim that in Christ there is neither male nor female.
Why it lasted
The most important early defence of women's public ministry in English, written from Lancaster gaol by the woman often called the mother of Quakerism.
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Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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