TY - JOUR

T1 - Mary Mollineux's Fruits of retirement (1702)

T2 - Poetry in the second period of quakerism

AU - Hinds, H.

PY - 2020/12/31

Y1 - 2020/12/31

N2 - 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.

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.

KW - Early Quakerism

KW - Fruits of retirement

KW - Heroic couplet

KW - Mary Mollineux

KW - Poetic form

KW - Second period

KW - Style

U2 - 10.3828/quaker.2020.25.2.2

DO - 10.3828/quaker.2020.25.2.2

M3 - Journal article

VL - 25

SP - 135

EP - 155

JO - Quaker Studies

JF - Quaker Studies

SN - 1363-013X

IS - 2

ER -