RT Article
T1 2019 George Richardson Lecture: Mary Mollineux’s Fruits of Retirement (1702) : Poetry in the Second Period of Quakerism
JF Quaker studies
VO 25
IS 2
SP 135
OP 155
A1 Hinds, Hilary 1958-
LA English
PB Liverpool University Press
YR 2020
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1750530201
AB Fruits of Retirement, a volume of poetry by the Lancashire Quaker Mary Mollineux, was published posthumously in 1702 by her husband and other Friends; it was well received and republished five times in the eighteenth century. Yet the early Quakers, like most Protestants of the time, rejected creative endeavour as impinging on the prerogative of the Almighty to create. This article considers why Mollineux’s poetry might have been so well received, notwithstanding Quaker strictures against the creative arts. It begins by reviewing the case against the arts, and argues for the importance of understanding the style, form and acceptance of Mollineux’s poetry in the light of the second period of Quakerism in which it was written and received.
K1 Mary Mollineux
K1 "Fruits of Retirement"
K1 poetic form
K1 Style
K1 heroic couplet
K1 early Quakerism
K1 second period
DO 10.3828/quaker.2020.25.2.2