A mighty social force : Phebe Ann Coffin Hanaford 1829-1921
The first full-length biography of Phebe Hanaford (1829-1921) takes the reader from her Quaker childhood on Nantucket Island to her remaining years on the mainland where both religious and marital restrictions fail to confine her. Her success as an author brings financial independence that allows her the religious choice of ordination as a Universalist minister and the personal choice of Ellen Miles as her companion of forty-four years. Rev. Hanaford unites her twenty-year ministry with the woman's rights movement while facing the criticism known in her church as the "woman issue." Following the death of Ellen Miles in 1902, Phebe becomes the victim of exploitation and neglect by family members who in 1921 bury her in an unmarked grave. Two decades of isolation prematurely removes Phebe Hanaford from public life. Now with a marker on her grave, documented sources and oral family history tell her story and restores Phebe Hanaford to her rightful place in women's history
Print Book, English, ©2009
[Loretta Cody], [Place of publication not identified], ©2009
Biographies
xxiv, 437 pages ; 23 cm
9781439258491, 143925849X
521006796
A daughter of Nantucket
A Baptist marriage
Literary woman
Becoming a preacher
A Waltham marriage
The New Jersey years
Called by women
Phebe and Ellen
Phebe Hanaford, robbed