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Elizabeth Sampson Ashbridge

  • Born: 1713
  • Birthplace: Cheshire, Ireland
  • Died: 1755

Elizabeth Sampson Sullivan Ashbridge is best known for her autobiographical work, Some Account of the Fore-Part of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge. It took her about seven years to complete the work, and it was only published some twenty years later.

Married twice, to John Sullivan and Aaron Ashbridge, Elizabeth Ashbridge was an ordained Quaker minister.

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  • Some Account of the Fore Part of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge (1774)
 
 
Works: Works by Elizabeth Sampson Ashbridge
(1713-1755)

1753Some Account of the Fore Part of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge. Ashbridge finishes a moving account of her life, especially concerning her spiritual development. An ordained Quaker minister, she hints that the ability to free herself from male authority depends on her ability to accept God's authority. The work would be first published in 1774.
1774Some Account of the Fore-Part of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge. Written from 1746 to 1753, one of the most readable and interesting of the Quaker journals and among the earliest autobiographies by an American woman is published; Ashbridge had died in 1755.

 
 

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