Werke: An expostulatory appeal to the professors of Christianity joyned in community with Samuel Ansley. O.O., um 1680; The sayings of women, which were spoken upon sundry occasions, in several places of the Scriptures. Briefly collected and set together, to shew how the Lord poured out of his spirit upon the whole house of Israel, not only on the male, but also on the female, and made them stewards of the manifold gifts of his grace, and as those who knew they must give an account of their stewardship to the Lord. So did all the women that were wife in heart, manage their particular talents, to the praise and glory of God. London 1683. London 1695; Truth's vindication or, A gentle stroke to wipe off the foul aspersions, false accusations and misrepresentations, cast upon the people of God, called Quakers. Both with respect to their principle, and their way of proselyting people over to them. Also, an epistle to such of the friends of Christ, that have lately been convinced of the truth as it is in Jesus. (London) 1679. London 1683². Ann Arbor 1978 (Early English Books, 1641-1700, 834,6). Ann Arbor 1982 (Early English Books, 1641-1700, 1274,10). Ann Arbor 1983 (Early English Books, 1641-1700, 1348,28). Ann Arbor 1996 (Early English Books, 1641-1700, 1246,4); Truth vindicated. By the faithful testimony and writings of the innocent servant and hand-maiden of the Lord, Elizabeth Bathurst, deceased. London 1691. London 1695². London 1705. London 1731. London 1773³. London 1774⁴. London 1788⁵. Ann Arbor 1982 (Early English Books, 1641-1700, 1274,10). Woodbridge 1985 (The Eighteenth Century, 1359,23). Woodbridge 1986 (The Eighteenth Century, 7390,15). Woodbridge 1990 (The Eighteenth Century, 4033, 8). Ann Arbor 1999 (Early English Books, 1641-1700, 2184,14a); Truth vindicated (...). In: Garman, Mary; Applegate, Judith; Benefiel, Margaret; Meredith, Dortha (Hrsg.): Hidden in plain sight: Quaker women's writings 1650-1700. Wallingford 1996, 339-429; The sayings of women (...). In: Garman, Mary; Applegate, Judith; Benefiel, Margaret; Meredith, Dortha (Hrsg.): Hidden in plain sight: Quaker women's writings 1650-1700. Wallingford 1996, 430-440.

Lit. (Auswahl): Whiting, John: Persecution exposed, in some memoirs relating to the sufferings of John Whiting, and many others of the people called Quakers, for conscience sake, in the west of England, etc. With memoirs of many eminent Friends deceased, and other memorable matters and occurrences, concerning the sufferings of the said people; and remarkable providences attending him and them, during his long imprisonment at Ivelchester, till the general release, in 1686, and continued down to the year 1696. London 1715. London 1791²; - The interpretation of the scripture passage, the 'more sure word of prophesy, etc., 2 Peter, chap. i., verse 19, as given by George Fox, William Penn, Robert Barclay, George Whitehead, Francis Howgill, Samuel Fisher, and James Parnel in reply to opposers, also extracts from the writings of Ambrose Rigge, William Bayly, Charles Marshall, Josiah Coale, Margaret Fox, and Elizabeth Bathurst, on the same subject. Manchester 1838²; - Elizabeth Bathurst. In: The Friend. A religious and literary journal, LII, 28, 1879, 217-218; - Schofield, Mary Anne: 'Womens speaking justified'. The feminine Quaker voice, 1662-1797. In: Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, VI, 1, 1987, 61-77; - Trevett, Christine (Hrsg.): Womens speaking justified. And other seventeenth-century Quaker writings about women. London 1989.

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