"Sisters of the Spirit... should still curiosity a much wider audience.... those attention-grabbing debts can stand on their own.... Mr. Andrews has made them much more available by way of supplying a finished creation and important footnotes... yet he doesn't intervene at the textual content itself." ―New York instances ebook Review
"... informative and encouraging reading." ―The magazine of yankee History
Jarena Lee, Zilpha Elaw, and Julia Foote underwent a revolution of their personal experience of self that helped to release a feminist revolution in American spiritual existence and in American society as a whole.
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