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Articles by Janet Moore Lindman
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.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, The Jigsaw Puzzle: Jumbling the Pieces of Stowe’s Story - Commonplace
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 Story the Torn Gown Told: Forensic Evidence and Lanah Sawyer’s Prosecution of Henry Bedlow for Rape, New York, 1793 - Commonplace
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.
“A Very Curious Religious Game”: Spiritual Maps and Material Culture in Early America - Commonplace
The Quaker spiritual journey, often invisible due to its silent, humble and individual nature, is illustrated in this map. In 1916, Albert Edmunds (1857-1941) recalled “a very curious religious game” that young Friends played with on Sunday afternoons. Born into a Quaker family in Middlesex, England, Edmunds attended the Croyden Friends Boarding School and later taught there before attending university and emigrating to the United States.
Redeeming the Almanac: Learning to Appreciate the iPhone of Early America - Commonplace
With so many uses, the almanac, like an iPhone, was truly interactive. The almanac gets no respect. It’s the whipping boy of early American literature. Few Americans today would guess that an almanac was actually the second publication to come off the first American printing press. In 1639! Every year after that up through the American Revolution, the almanac enjoyed a readership unmatched but for the Bible. It was, year in and year out, a guaranteed bestseller.
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