Society of Friends

This offers another narrative of AT 's falling into a trance, uttering prophecies, and foiling attempts to interrupt her (this time by Quaker men) by singing over and through them. She presents herself as a...

The diaries cover holidays, travel, her famine relief work in Russia (briefly excerpted in a pamphlet printed by the Friends Relief Committee), and in Britain the General Strike and civilian life during the Second World...

HC 's entire story (which takes place on a coach journey from London to the country) is narrated by a fifty-year-old childless widower. Beresford's book is debated, and raved over by a young officer and...

The Emotions of Martha is a religious novel, in that Martha Spence's spiritual and emotional development run side by side. At the outset she feels certain that she has a remarkable artistic talent (her subjects...

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...

These make up an important document in Quaker history. Though she begins her memoirs in formal, somewhat wordy style, CP tells a good story, particularly in the passages about her adventures in North America...

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...

HG admired the English religious writer Isaac Watts . Much of her poetry and many of her prose essays have religious themes; several are commemorative in function. Her prose can be as imaginative as her...

To sum up, PS's text gives the impression that she had a difficult man to deal with, and one who was not slow to use her gender as a weapon against her when he saw...

Carr's biscuits were a staple of British diet. The firm was started and run by one of the great Quaker trading families, a centre of progressive employment practices and local civic responsibility. Both family and...

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)...

Although not prone to harping on God's vengeance, MF here calls the rival sect of the Rantersbeasts who, because of their libertinism, tend downwards into the earth instead of upwards to God.

After her husband's death in 1921, KBG and her son Glen moved to a former mill cottage just outside Earby in Yorkshire. The cottage was discovered for her by a member of the Society of Friends

Late in life HB lived in a room behind the Peel meeting house in London, a place set aside for poor widows, and received an allowance of five shillings a week from that congregation...

The landlord, however, refused to take children, so Chavelita and at least one of her sisters spent some time staying with neighbours. These neighbours were Quakers , whose home, GE wrote many years later (in...