...This chapter considers ways in which annotated books provide evidence, first of the one-on-one experience of a reader responding to a book as to a companion; second of the way in which the “conversation” between a book and a reader might prepare the reader for public discussions, and finally...

... Indian islands. These women also traveled overland on foot and horseback across England, Scotland, and Wales and through every mainland British American colony. The wide-ranging travels undertaken by Quaker women were almost always accomplished in the company of a female companion, a spiritual partner...