Janet Moore Lindman

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Author’s Note: Dating System of the Religious Society of Friends Introduction: Practical Friends Part 1: Seed Time 1. “Inward and Outward Consolation”: Quaker Piety 2. “To Cultivate Tender Minds”: Educating Children 3. “The Solemn Close”: Rituals of Death Part 2: Fruitless Exercise and Distress 4. “A Dividing and Separating Spirit”: The Hicksite Schism 5. “Contentions, Divisions, and Subdivisions”: Gurneyites v. Wilburites 6.

Understanding puzzles as agents of disorder runs counter to a common interpretation that associates puzzles with the quest for and ultimate affirmation of order. Save to PDFPrint In a recent Commonplace essay, Janet Moore Lindman describes a late eighteenth-century jigsaw puzzle featuring an allegorical map used to educate young Quakers about spiritual principles. The puzzle depicted the spiritual cartography of a pious Quaker life: places to avoid and paths to pursue.

The morning after After ten years of work, I recently finished a book on Early America’s most sensational rape trial and its long aftermath. In the opening scene of The Sewing Girl’s Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America (2022), I evoke the image of seventeen-year-old Lanah Sawyer sitting in the back room of a New York brothel one morning in the summer of 1793, with a needle and thread, repairing her damaged gown.