Primary Work

Some Account of the Fore Part of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge, who died in Truth's service at the house of Robert Lecky at Kilnock in the County of Carlow Ireland; the 16th of 5th mo. 1755. Written by her own Hand many years ago. 1774.

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Edkins, Carol. "Quest for Community: Spiritual Autobiographies of Eighteenth-Century Quaker and Puritan Women in America." Women's Autobiography: Essays in Criticism. Ed. Estelle C. Jelinek. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1980. 39-52.

Higgins, Edward F. "Narrative and Values in the Quaker Journals of Thomas Chalkley, Elizabeth Ashbridge and John Woolman." DAI 53.11 (May 1993): 3908A DAI No.: DA9306999.

Levenduski, Cristine. Peculiar Power: A Quaker Woman Preacher in Eighteenth-Century America. Washington, DC: Smithsonian, 1996.

Madden, Etta M. "Quaker Elizabeth Ashbridge as 'the Spectacle & Discourse of the Company': Metaphor, Synecdoche, and Synthesis." Early American Literature 34.2 (1999): 171-89.

Scheick, William J. Logonomic Conflict in Hanson's Captivity Narrative and Ashbridge's Autobiography." Eighteenth Century 37.1 (Sprg 1996): 3-21.

Shea, Daniel. "Some Account of the Fore Part of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge." Journeys in New Worlds: Early American Narratives. Eds. William L. Andrews et. al. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1990.

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