Bathsheba Bowers

Her only surviving work is the spiritual autobiography An Alarm Sounded to Prepare the Inhabitants of the World to Meet the Lord in the Way of His Judgments (1709).

Her parents were from England and immigrated to America, settling in Charlestown, Massachusetts, where Bowers was born and raised.

Anti-Quaker persecution prompted the Bowers family to send their four eldest daughters to Philadelphia, which had a large Quaker population.

[4] While An Alarm adheres to many of the conventions of Quaker spiritual autobiographies, its tone is that of what one critic describes as "a woman always emotionally on edge".

[4] She received no attention from scholars until the late 20th century, especially after her inclusion in the Heath Anthology of American Literature (1990).