Near hagiography ... Sankovitch avoids using any pronouns when referring to the minister, a choice that has surprisingly little impact on the smoothness of her prose.
An excellent account ... Sankovitch persuasively presents the Friend as a unique force in Revolutionary War times, both personally and socially ... It must not be forgotten that the Public Universal Friend was a religious zealot, something Sankovitch does not fail to cover.
Independent scholar Sankovitch recounts the unlikely history of Jemima Wilkinson (1753-1819), a Rhode Island woman who claimed to have died and been reborn as a genderless messenger from God ... A surprising episode of American history.
