Chapter 12 “The Joy of Doing Right” The Humanitarian Work of Doctor Hilda Clark During the First World War

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword xi
4. Illustrations xiii
5. Acknowledgments xv
6. Abbreviations xvii
7. Introduction 1
8. Part 1 Engaging Conflict and Separations
9. Chapter 1 Hicksite Women in the Long Nineteenth Century 17
10. Chapter 2 Elizabeth Robson, Transatlantic Women Ministers, and the Hicksite-Orthodox Schism 38
11. Chapter 3 Women in the World of George W. Taylor The Public and Private Worlds of Orthodox Quaker Women 57
12. Part 2 Engaging Diversity
13. Chapter 4 Vocation, Religious Identity, and the Abolitionist Networks of Sarah Mapps Douglass and Sojourner Truth 79
14. Chapter 5 “She Hath Done What She Could” The Charitable Antislavery Work of Eleanor Clark of Street 102
15. Chapter 6 Ruth Esther Smith (1870–1947) Foremother to Friends in Central America 122
16. Part 3 Engaging Sacred and Secular Literature
17. Chapter 7 An Unforeseen Consequence of the Orthodox-Hicksite Schism (1827–1828) The Fiction Writing of Amelia Opie, Helen Hunt Jackson, Mary Howitt, and Mary Hallock Foote 137
18. Chapter 8 A Friendly Daughter: Lucy Barton’s (Ex-) Quaker Identity, Cultural Negotiations, and Authorial Inheritance 156
19. Chapter 9 The “Mystic Sense” of Scripture as Taught by Holiness Quaker Hannah Whitall Smith 178
20. Part 4 Engaging the Wider Social and Cultural World
21. Chapter 10 “Radicalism Within Boundaries” Excavating the Contribution of Women Quakers to Radical Reform in Britain and Their Transnational Networks in the Nineteenth Century 199
22. Chapter 11 “We Must Hope That the Moderates with Their Quiet Attire Are the Rising Section” British Women Friends’ Relinquishment of Plain Dress 222
23. Chapter 12 “The Joy of Doing Right” The Humanitarian Work of Doctor Hilda Clark During the First World War 245
24. Afterword 265
25. Selected Bibliography 269
26. Contributors 277
27. Index 283