Shaking the Faith : Women, Family, and Mary Marshall Dyer's Anti-Shaker Campaign, 1815-1867

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With her husband and their five children, Dyer had been a Shaker for two years, but as her husband grew increasingly attracted to Shakerism, Dyer's own commitment waned, and when she announced she was leaving the sect and requested the return of her children , neither her husband nor the Shaker authorities would relinquish them.