Rachel Wilson (Quaker minister)

Rachel Wilson (8 April 1720 – 18 March 1775) was an English Quaker minister from Kendal, Cumbria, who travelled extensively in Britain and the United States.[1][2][3]

Her great, great, great, great-grandson, Geoffrey Braithwaite, published a book based on her three-volume diary, titled Rachel Wilson and her Quaker Mission in Eighteenth Century America (2012, York: Sessions Books, ISBN 978-1850724124).[4][5][6]

A typed transcript of her diary is held in the Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections of Haverford College in Pennsylvania, United States.[7]

References

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  1. ^ "Wilson [née Wilson], Rachel". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ Keller, Rosemary Skinner; Ruether, Rosemary Radford; Cantlon, Marie (19 April 2006). "Women and Protestantism in Colonial New England". Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America. Vol. 2. Indiana University Press. pp. 227–229. ISBN 978-0-253-34685-8.
  3. ^ "Rachel Wilson of Kendal. 1722-1776. Notes and Incidents of Her Visit to America, 1768-1769". Bulletin of Friends' Historical Society of Philadelphia. 8 (1): 25–35. 1917. ISSN 2330-8079. JSTOR 41945084. Retrieved 5 December 2024.
  4. ^ Braithwaite, Geoffrey (8 March 2013). "Rachel Wilson". The Friend. Retrieved 5 December 2024.
  5. ^ Garman, Mary (2015). "Rachel Wilson and her Quaker Mission in 18th Century America [review]". Quaker Studies. 20 (1): 147–149.
  6. ^ Stevens, Sylvia (2014). "Rachel Wilson and her Quaker Mission in 18"' Century America. [review]" (PDF). Journal of the Friends Historical Society. 65: 51–52. Retrieved 5 December 2024.
  7. ^ "Collection: Rachel Wilson diary". archives.tricolib.brynmawr.edu. TriCollege Libraries: Archives & Manuscripts. Retrieved 5 December 2024.

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