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Patterns of Quaker authorship, 1652-56, Kate Peters; the war of the lamb - George Fox and the apocalyptic discourse of revolutionary Quakerism, David Loewenstein; Margaret Fell Fox and feminist literary history - a mother in Israel calls to the Jews, Judith Kegan Gardiner; hidden things brought to light - enthusiasm and Quaker discourse, Nigel Smith; from seeker to finder - the singular experience of Mary Penington, Norman T. Burns; handmaids of the Lord and mothers in Israel - early vindications of Quaker women's prophecy, Elaine Hobby; no man's copy - the critical problem of Fox's Journal; the politic and the polite in Quaker prose - the case of William Penn, N.H. Keeble; Joseph Besse and the Quaker culture of suffering, John R. Knott; early Quakerism - a historian's afterword, Ann Hughes.