The Life of Selina Campbell: A Fellow Soldier in the Cause of Restoration
Loretta M. Long. University of Alabama Press, $38.5 (235pp) ISBN 978-0-8173-1059-2
Most American historians can tell you that the founder of the 19th-century Disciples of Christ movement was Alexander Campbell, a strident primitivist who sought to restore the New Testament church. However, only a handful know that his wife, Selina Huntington Bakewell Campbell, was as ardent as Campbell himself and was a tireless religious activist in what is now West Virginia. Loretta Long's The Life of Selina Campbell: A Fellow Soldier in the Cause of Restoration reads a bit too much like a dissertation (her introduction is essentially a historiographical essay on Christian women in 19th-century America), but the topic is so unmined that this is excusable. ( May)
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Reviewed on: 03/19/2001
Genre: Nonfiction
Paperback - 248 pages - 978-0-8173-5755-9