Daughters of Light: Quaker Women Preaching and Prophesying in the Colonies and Abroad, 1700-1775 is a book by Rebecca Larson, published in 1999 . It provides specific studies of 18th century women ministers

Recorded Minister

A Recorded Minister was originally a male or female Quaker who was acknowledged to have a gift of spoken ministry.The practice of recording, in a Monthly Meeting Minute, the acknowledgement that a Friend had a gift of spoken ministry began in the 1730s in London Yearly Meeting, according to...

, evidencing the progressive nature of Quaker views on women.

Author

Rebecca Larson was born in 1959. She has a BA at the University of California, Santa Barbara

University of California, Santa Barbara

The University of California, Santa Barbara, commonly known as UCSB or UC Santa Barbara, is a public research university and one of the 10 general campuses of the University of California system. The main campus is located on a site in Goleta, California, from Santa Barbara and northwest of Los...

 and a Ph.D. at Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

. At the time of publication, she lived in Santa Barbara

Content

In addition to the text, the book contains an appendix giving Individual descriptions of the transatlantic Ministers of about10-15 lines on each person:

• Alice (Burton) Alderson (1678-1766):
• Elizabeth (Sampson) (?) (Sullivan) Ashbridge
  Elizabeth Ashbridge
  Elizabeth Ashbridge was an 18th century Quaker minister born in Cheshire, England.-Early life:Elizabeth was born in 1713 in the town of Middlewich in Cheshire, England to Thomas and Mary Sampson. Thomas was a surgeon on sea vessels and Mary was a pious follower of the Church of England...
  
   (1713-1755):
• Sarah (Payton) (Clarke) Baker (1669-1714):
• Mary (Hogsflesh) Bannister (fl.. 1703)
• Barbara Bevan (1682-1705)
• Jane (Boid) (Atkinson) Biles (d. 1709)
• Esther (Palmer) Champion (1678-1714)
• Esther (Peacock) Clare (ca. 1675-1742)
• Comfort (Stanyan) (Hoag) CoIIins (1711-1816)
• Hannah (Dent) Cooper (d. 1754)
• Margaret Copeland (1684-1759)
• Jane (Rowlandson) Crosfield (1712-1784
• Phebe (Willets) (Mott) Dodge (1699-1782)
• Mary (?) Ellerton (d. 1736)
• Margaret Ellis (d. 1765 in old age)
• Alice (Featherstone) Hall (1708-1762)
• Eliphal (Smith) (Perry) Harper (d. 1747):
• Hannah (Featherstone) Harris (1708-1786)
• Rebecca (Owen) (Minshall) Harvey (b. 1687-fl. 1751)
• Jane (Fenn) Hoskins
  Jane Fenn Hoskens
  Jane Fenn Hoskens Author of .In 1712, nineteen-year-old Jane Fenn left her home, family, and friends in London to obey an inner voice that said ——“Go to Pennsylvania! ” Arrived in Philadelphia, she was soon cast into debtors’ prison for refusing to sign an indenture dictated by the man who had...
  
   (1694-1764):
• Sophia (Wigington) Home (1702-1774)
• Mary (Goodwin) James (d. ca. 1776)
• Elizabeth (?) Kay (d. 1713)
• Mary (Ransome) Kirby (1709-1779)
• Mary (Payne) Leaver (1720-1789)
• Margaret (Thomas) Lewis (1712-1789)
• Susanna (Hudson) (Hatton) Lightfoot (1720-1781)
• Ann (Herbert) Moore (1710-1783)

• Elizabeth (Roberts) Morgan (1688-1777)
• Elizabeth (Hudson) Morris (1722-1783)
• Sarah Morris (1703-1775)
• Susanna (Heath) Morris (1682-1755)
• Mary (Peisley) Neale (1717-1757)
• Esther (Palmer) Champion (1678-1714)
• Esther (Peacock) Clare (ca. 1675-1742)
• Comfort (Stanyan) (Hoag) Collins (1711-1816)
• Sarah (Clements) Owen (fl. 1703)
• Ann (Chapman) Parsons (1676-1732)
• Mary (Morgan) Pennell (1678-1764)
• Catharine (Payton) Phillips
  Catherine Payton Phillips
  Catherine Phillips, born Payton was a Quaker Minister, who travelled in England, Wales, Scotland, Holland and the American colonies...
  
  (1726-1794)
• Elizabeth (Beck) Rawlinson (1670-1750)
• Ann (Lewis) (Williams) (Bennett) Roberts (1678-1750)
• Mary (Wheeler) Rogers (d. 1699)
• Elizabeth (Levis) Shipley (1690-1777)
• Ann (Waln) (Dillworth) Sibthorp (1654-1710)
• Elizabeth Smith (1724-1772)
• Margaret (Paine) Stones (d. 1740)
• Rebecca (England) Turner (d. 1721)
• Mary (Hayes) (Lewis) Waln (d. 1753)
• Mary (Pace) Waring (1712-1776)
• Abigail (Craven) (Boles) Watson (1684-1752)
• Elizabeth Webb (1663-1727)
• Elizabeth (Duckworth) Whartnaby (d. 1734)
• Esther (Canby) (Stapler) White (1700-1777)
• Elizabeth (Scot) Wilkinson (1712-1771)
• Rachel (Wilson) Wilson (1720-1775)
• Sarah (Goodwin) Worrell (d. 1775)

Reviews

• The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 124, No. 3,(July, 2000), pp. 437-439: Review by Jean R Soderlund (Subscription access)
• William & Mary Quarterly Vol. 59 No. 2 (April 2001)-taster of first 3 paragraphs - subscription needed for whole article)
• Collection of short reviews of this book in DC Public Library online