Society of Friends

The first-named is George I 's rejected queen (accused of adultery and imprisoned for life before her husband came to the English throne, while her alleged lover was assassinated). The protagonist of the second novel...

Comparatively little of AC 's philosophical correspondence has survived (that is, far more letters to her than from her are extant). This correspondence cover[ed] such topics as Quakerism , Familism, Behmen ism, Spinoza ...

In The Harlot's Vail Rent, which appeared during the same year, RT again reproved Elizabeth Atkinson for leaving the Society of Friends and switching to the opposite side in printed controversy.

On the same occasion Sarah Chevers wrote a similar letter to her husband and children, and both women wrote other letters addressed both to individuals and to groups of Friends with a capital F. They...

Others who contributed were Rebecca Travers (who wrote the opening pages under the title of the work as a whole), Sarah Ellis , Ann Martin , and Robert Whitrow , Joan's husband, who signed a...

MD , travelling in Devon, preached a sermon about the Inner Light; the manuscript, now in the library of Friends' House in London, is entitled May Drummond's Account of Conscience and Account of...

The obscure EH published her only known work, The Poor Widows [sic] Mite, a long poem written in justification of the Meetings of the Society of Friends , which is interesting for its distinctively female imagery.

The year after her second marriage, AW (with thirty-six other women, including Rebecca Travers and Mary Elson ) signed For the King and both Houses of Parliament, a petition against the imprisonment of Friends

EM published in Life's Aftermath, A Story of Quiet Peoplea picture of Quaker manners describing tense scenes at the annual Quaker meetings in London in the years of her early childhood, when several Friends...

SH edited an anthology of Quaker writings: Extracts from Divers Ancient Testimonies of Friends and Others.

EB published a spirited and theologically learned defence of Quaker beliefs and practices which she entitled Truth's Vindication.

ML continued her life-writing project with Biographical Notices of Members of the Society of Friends , who were Resident in Ireland.

It opens in Derby on 4 December 1745 with a proclamation that the Young Pretender and his army are marching on the town. (Derby was in life this army's furthest point south.) All the prosperous...

MD expatiates on the internal Dictates of the Holy Spirit, or (with typographical emphasis not reproduced here) the Light which illuminates all Souls, as the Sun does Bodies, and in this Light thou shalt...

It argues (before such arguments had been put forward in America by Abigail Adams , Judith Sargent Murray , or Mercy Otis Warren , but drawing on beliefs current among Quakers since their mid-seventeenth-century origins)...