Grand, Sarah. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand: Volume 1. Editor Heilmann, Ann, Routledge.
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Occupation | Sarah Grand | As Mayoress of Bath, SG
presided over a meeting at the Bath Guildhall that was held to raise support for the International Society of Friends
' appeal for donations to provide food for starving Germans. Grand, Sarah. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand: Volume 1. Editor Heilmann, Ann, Routledge. 564 |
Occupation | Joan Vokins | Not long after her conversion JV
became a Quaker minister and missionary. She and her sister Jane Sansom
became local leaders of the movement, strong supporters of the women's meetings which in the later 1670s... |
Occupation | May Drummond | She was called to the ministry around 1734, which, Thomas Story reported, caused renewed pain to her family. Story, Thomas. 714 |
Occupation | Evelyn Sharp | At the end of her first day in BuzulukES
felt that a corpse lying face down in the snow was the happiest thing she had seen all day. John, Angela V. Evelyn Sharp: Rebel Woman, 18691955. Manchester University Press. 132 |
Occupation | Dorothy White | DW
worked for her faith as a minister and preacher for the Society of Friends
. |
Occupation | Rebecca Travers | RT
's visible ministry in London belongs to the years 1659-61. Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan. 141 |
Occupation | Catherine Phillips | She duly took up the role of minister and missionary for the Society of Friends
. She was active in this calling over the course of her life, preaching in Britain, North America, and Holland... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Barbara Blaugdone | She was at this time probably a widow, and an active Quaker
minister and missionary. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Material Conditions of Writing | Mary Fisher | |
Material Conditions of Writing | Mary Penington | MP
, already securely a Quaker
, wrote her first autobiographical text: A Brief Account of Some of My Exercises from My Childhood . . .. Skidmore, Gil, and Mary Penington. “Preface”. Experiences in the Life of Mary Penington, edited by Norman Penney and Norman Penney, Friends Historical Society, p. vii - xvii. ix |
Material Conditions of Writing | Mary Howitt | |
Material Conditions of Writing | May Drummond | Disowned by the Society of Friends
in both Edinburgh and London, MD
issued a self-defensive broadsheet: To the Meeting Assembled in the Chamber at Gracechurch-Street, which appears to be her final publication. Drummond, May. To the Meeting assembled in the Chamber at Gracechurch-street. title-page Reilly, Matthew. “The Life and Literary Fictions of May Drummond, Quaker Female Preacher”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol. 28 , No. 2, pp. 287-12. 310 and n57 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Amelia Opie | When she entered the Society of Friends
, AO
joined a group which was deeply suspicious of fiction and felt that writing ought to concentrate on truth-telling and moral instruction. Opie tried to conform, and... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Elizabeth Hooton | False Prophets and False Teachers Described was printed at London, bearing the authorial names of six Quakers
including EH
, Mary Fisher
, and Thomas Aldam
, all imprisoned in York Castle. Hooton's... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Amelia Opie | This was the first book that she published as a Quaker
, and to people in the Society of Friends she justified the practice of fiction by reminding them of the parables of Jesus. Though... |
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