Female Piety and Evangelical Ritualization of Death: Abigail Hutchinson’s Conversion in “A Faithful Narrative”

Authors

  • Shitsuyo Masui

Keywords:

Female, Piety, Faithful Narrative

Abstract

“A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God,” Jonathan Edwards’s report on the Northampton revival of the 1730s, was among his writings on personal piety that were immensely popular when reprinted in the nineteenth century. The highlights of the Narrative are two representative female piritual narratives about Abigail Hutchinson, a dying young girl, and Phebe Bartlet, a four-year-old child. These were read as exemplary stories by the evangelical Protestant readers of the tracts and pamphlets distributed by the American Sunday School Union and the American Tract Society throughout the nineteenth century

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