Joan Whitrow

01 February 1630 - 08 September 1707

JW , a Quaker and later an Independent pamphleteer in the post-Restoration period of reaction, is remarkable both for the family politics and religious feeling of her account of the deaths of two of her children, and for the attention she pays in her later pamphlets and prophecies to social issues like poverty.

BirthName: Joan
Her first name is several times rendered on title-pages as Jone, which may have been her own spelling.
Self-constructed: The Widow Whitrowe
Her title-pages use Whitrow, Whitrowe, and Whiterow; but this particular combination appears at least twice.
Married: Whitrow

Milestones

February 1630

A baby named Joan Robinson who was baptised at the church of St Botolph-without-Aldgate in London this month may have been the future JW . This date fits approximately with what her epitaph said of her age at death.

“People. Joan Whitrow”. The Twickenham Museum.

Cole, William. Twickenham Town in Middlesex.

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Later 1677

JW was the lead author of The Work of God in a Dying Maid, a setting for the deathbed testimonies of her small son and particularly of her daughter.

This text is available online from the Women Writers Project , www.wwp.northeastern.edu

OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1697

JW published what appears to be her final pamphlet, Faithful Warnings, Expostulations and Exhortations, to the Several Professors of Christianity in England, as well those of the Highest as the Lowest Quality.

OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

8 September 1707

JW died, in or near Twickenham, aged probably seventy-seven.

Cole, William. Twickenham Town in Middlesex.

Biography

Birth and Background

February 1630

“People. Joan Whitrow”. The Twickenham Museum.

Cole, William. Twickenham Town in Middlesex.

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