Women in Christianity

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• Christianity

• Women in Christianity -- History
• Monasticism and religious orders for women
• Women in Christianity -- History -- Early Church, ca. 30-600
• Women missionaries

• Escogidas Plantas: Nuns and Beatas in Mexico City, 1531-1601 (c2002), by Jacqueline Zuzann Holler (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at gutenberg-e.org)
• Freeing the Feminine (1985), by Elspeth Strachan and Gordon Strachan (HTML at womenpriests.org)
• The Importance of Religion to Woman (1875), by Annie Rollo Stagg (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Place and Work of Women in the Church (1877), by John Munro (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Religion of Woman: An Historical Study (London: Watts and Co., 1908), by Joseph McCabe, contrib. by Florence Dixie
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• A Woman's Place? Leadership in the Church, by C. S. Cowles (HTML at Evangelical Christian Library)
• Womens Speaking Justified, Proved, and Allowed of by the Scriptures (London, 1666), by Margaret Fell (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• The Church Impotent: The Feminization of Christianity (Dallas: Spence Pub. Co, 1999), by Leon J. Podles (PDF files with commentary at podles.org)

• The Role of Women in Early Christianity (New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1982), by Jean Laporte (HTML at womenpriests.org)

• Woman Under Monasticism: Chapters on Saint-Lore and Convent Life Between A.D. 500 and A.D. 1500 (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1896), by Lina Eckenstein (HTML at Wisconsin)

• Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany (c2008), by Erika Lauren Lindgren (HTML and PDF files at gutenberg-e.org)

• The Way of Perfection, by Saint Teresa of Avila, trans. by E. Allison Peers (multiple formats at CCEL)

• Women of the Cell and Cloister (London: Methuen and Co., c1913), by Ethel Rolt-Wheeler (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Awful Disclosures, By Maria Monk, of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery of Montreal: Containing, Also, Many Incidents Never Before Published (New York: De Witt & Davenport, c1855), by Maria Monk
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text
• Awful Disclosures, By Maria Monk, of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery of Montreal : Revised, With an Appendix Containing, Part I. Reception of the First Editions. Part II. Sequel of Her Narrative. Part III. Review of the Case : Also, a Supplement, Giving More Particulars of the Nunnery and Grounds (New York: M. Monk, 1836), by Maria Monk (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk, Or, The Hidden Secrets of a Nun's Life in a Convent Exposed, Illustrated With Upwards of Forty Engravings (Manchester, England: Milner and Company, ca.1836), by Maria Monk (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Affidavit of Maria Monk's Mother (ca. 1835), by Isabella Mills (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Awful Disclosures, By Maria Monk, of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery of Montreal: Containing, Also, Many Incidents Never Before Published (New York: De Witt & Davenport, c1855), by Maria Monk
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text
• Awful Disclosures, By Maria Monk, of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery of Montreal : Revised, With an Appendix Containing, Part I. Reception of the First Editions. Part II. Sequel of Her Narrative. Part III. Review of the Case : Also, a Supplement, Giving More Particulars of the Nunnery and Grounds (New York: M. Monk, 1836), by Maria Monk (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk, Or, The Hidden Secrets of a Nun's Life in a Convent Exposed, Illustrated With Upwards of Forty Engravings (Manchester, England: Milner and Company, ca.1836), by Maria Monk (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Further Disclosures By Maria Monk, Concerning the Hotel Dieu Nunnery of Montreal Also, Her Visit to Nuns' Island, and Disclosures Concerning That Secret Retreat: Preceded By a Reply to the Priests' Book (New York : J.J. Slocum, 1836), by Maria Monk and John Jay Slocum (page images at canadiana.org)
• Maria Monk's Daughter: An Autobiography (New York: United States Pub. Co., 1875), by L. St. John Eckel Harper (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The True History of Maria Monk (London: Catholic Truth Society, 1895) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The White Sister, by F. Marion Crawford (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Escogidas Plantas: Nuns and Beatas in Mexico City, 1531-1601 (c2002), by Jacqueline Zuzann Holler (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at gutenberg-e.org)

• The Hidden Life: Hagiographic Essays, Meditations, Spiritual Texts, by Edith Stein (HTML in Austria)

• Daughters of the Cross: or, Woman's Mission, by Daniel C. Eddy
  • page images at MOA
  • Gutenberg text
• Medical Work of the Woman's Foreign Mission Society: Methodist Episcopal Church (Boston: Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, Methodist Episcopal Church, 1888), by Annie Ryder Gracey (page images at Drexel)
• Woman and Her Saviour in Persia, by Thomas Laurie
  • page images at MOA
  • Gutenberg text

• Women Travelers, Explorers and Missionaries to Africa, 1763-2004: A Comprehensive English-Language Bibliography, by Davis Bullwinkle (HTML at africabib.org)

• Clara A. Swain, M. D.: First Medical Missionary to the Women of the Orient (c1912), by Robert Hoskins (PDF and page images at Drexel)
• Memoir of Mrs. Sarah Emily York, Formerly Miss S.E. Waldo, Missionary in Greece, by R. B. Medbery (page images at MOA)

• The Lives of Mrs. Ann H. Judson and Mrs. Sarah B. Judson, With a Biographical Sketch of Mrs. Emily C. Judson: Missionaries to Burmah (Auburn, NY: Derby and Miller, 1851), by Arabella M. Willson, contrib. by Emily C. Judson (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)

• Reminiscences of My Life in Persia (1909), by Mary Jewett (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Lives of Mrs. Ann H. Judson and Mrs. Sarah B. Judson, With a Biographical Sketch of Mrs. Emily C. Judson: Missionaries to Burmah (Auburn, NY: Derby and Miller, 1851), by Arabella M. Willson, contrib. by Emily C. Judson (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)

• Memoir of Mrs. Sarah D. Comstock, Missionary to Arracan (Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society, c1854), by Amanda M. Corey Edmond (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)

• Reminiscences of My Life in Persia (1909), by Mary Jewett (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Clara A. Swain, M. D.: First Medical Missionary to the Women of the Orient (c1912), by Robert Hoskins (PDF and page images at Drexel)

• A Glimpse of India: Being a Collection of Extracts from the Letters of Dr. Clara A. Swain (New York: James Pott and Company, 1909), by Clara A. Swain (page images at Drexel)

• Memoir of Mrs. Sarah Emily York, Formerly Miss S.E. Waldo, Missionary in Greece, by R. B. Medbery (page images at MOA)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Abrahamic Faiths, Ethnicity and Ethnic Conflicts (1997), ed. by Paul Peachey, George F. McLean, and John Kromkowski (HTML at crvp.org)
• The Common Life (London: J. Clarke and Co., 1904), by Jonathan Brierley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Discussions and Arguments on Various Subjects (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1907), by John Henry Newman (HTML at newmanreader.org)
• Essays, Critical and Historical (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1907), by John Henry Newman
  • volume I: HTML at newmanreader.org
  • volume II: HTML at newmanreader.org
• In His Image, by William Jennings Bryan (Gutenberg text)
• Iola: or, Facing the Truth (Raleigh: Edwards and Broughton, 1886), by J. Pressley Barrett (HTML and page images at ecu.edu)
• Jesus and the Intellectual, by Bill Bright (HTML at cru.org)
• Just Christianity: The Story of Salvation for Adults (c2008), by Steve Copland (HTML and PDF at Google)
• The Mystical Chorus: Jung and the Religious Dimension, by Donald Broadribb, contrib. by Marilyn Holly and Norma Lyons (PDF at archive.org)
• The New Evangelism and Other Papers, by Henry Drummond (multiple formats at CCEL)
• New Star Papers: or, Views and Experiences of Religious Subjects, by Henry Ward Beecher (page images at MOA)
• Passing on the Faith: Transforming Traditions for the Next Generation of Jews, Christians, and Muslims (New York: Fordham University Press, 2006), ed. by James Heft (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)
• Selfish Young Man: An Honest Look at Christ and Christianity, Plus Other Selected Essays, by David Allan (PDF with commentary at selfishyoungman.com)
• The Warriors, by Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay (Gutenberg text)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.