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Andrews, Edward Deming and Faith Andrews, - Fruits of the Shaker Tree of Life: Memoirs of fifty years of collecting and research.

Stockbridge, MA, Berkshire Traveler Press, (1975). G soft cover some wear to covers. Selections from Berkshire Traveler Press: Country Inns I and Back Roads: Shop Drawings of Shaker Furniture and Woodenware I. Forthcoming Shop Drawings of Iron and Tinware In the Middle of the 18th Century: Ann Lee the Unlettered daughter of a blacksmith and had been employed since early childhood eto join a small Quaker society which had come under the influence of the Frenfh Prophets of Camisards. Her motivations was essentially protests against protests against misunderstandings at home; the indifference of the established church; the intolerable working conditions in the factgories and the squalid poverty of the slums. The Quaker Socity ws even more of a haven when she was given in an unwanted marriage to another blacksmith, Abraham Stanley,k by whom she had four children, all of whom died in infancy.
USD 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.5 | £UK 10.75 | JP¥ 2032] Book number BOOKS056999I

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