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Women and Belief, 1852–1928


This volume contains two works published by American writers in the early 1850s, a crucial decade for the American women’s movement following the seminal women’s rights convention held at Seneca Falls in 1848. Luther Lee’s Woman’s Right to Preach the Gospel (1853) addresses a question that provoked persistent debate throughout the nineteenth century – the legitimacy and role of female preachers within the Christian church – while the pseudonymous Fred Folio’s satirical novel Lucy Boston (1855) engages with the emerging popular interest in spiritualism and its particular appeal for women.

Volume Contents

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    Front Matter
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    Introduction to Volume II By Jessica Cox; Nadine Muller
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    Woman’s right to preach the Gospel (Syracuse, New York, 1853) By Antoinette L. Brown; Luther Lee
  • A Book for the Times. Lucy Boston; or, Woman’s Rights and Spiritualism: illustrating the follies and delusions of the nineteenth century (New York: J.C. Derby, 1855) By Fred Folio
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      To T. P. Munrab, Esq
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      Preface
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      Chapter I: Introductory
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      Chapter II
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      Chapter III
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      Chapter IV
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      Chapter V
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      Chapter VI
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      Chapter VII
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      Chapter VIII
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      Chapter IX
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      Chapter X
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      Chapter XI
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      Chapter XII
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      Chapter XIII
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      Chapter XIV
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      Chapter XV
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      Chapter XVI
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      Chapter XVII
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      Chapter XVIII
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      Chapter XIX
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      Chapter XX
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      Chapter XXI
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      Chapter XXII
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      Chapter XXIII
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      Chapter XXIV
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      Chapter XXV
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      Chapter XXVI
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      Chapter XXVII
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      Chapter XXVIII
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      Chapter XXIX
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      Chapter XXX