Society of Friends

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...

The Friends Library began publication in Philadelphia; its first volume was A Short Account of the Life of Anne Camm , a Minister of the Gospel, in the Society of Friends.

Her proselytising effort was courteously received. The Sultan apparently recognised and acknowledged the spiritual truth in MF 's speech. It also brought her an enduring fame, chiefly within the bounds of her own Quaker faith.

LSB probably first reached print with two sonnets in the Quaker periodical the Friends' Quarterly Examiner, titled Sonnet and A Double Sonnet. She may have added a third sonnet in the same journal...

In the twentieth century, MK re-focused her talents on non-fiction [and] sociological investigations with members of the Rowntree family. She first worked with John Wilhelm Rowntree on a series of powerful essays in his York...

Subscribers included Wordsworth , Southey , and De Quincey , all of them writers living in the area. Commentator Jonathan Wordsworth suggests that the subscription list, which clearly took careful fund-raising work, may have been...

This text was highly topical. Manasseh ben Israel had arrived in England the previous October to negotiate with Cromwell over the return of the Jews to England, which had been legislated in December. MF asked...

MF says that she personally travelled two hundred miles to deliver into the king 's own hand one of her Restoration tracts, A Declaration and an Information from us the People of God called Quakers

CP wrote at Redruth, Cornwall, An Epistle to Friends in Ireland, which was published that year at Dublin.

BB (future autobiographer) wrote and delivered a political letter to James II protesting about the treatment of Quakers .

MF was the most prolific, as well as one of the most influential, Quaker writers. She wrote letters; her single-volume collected works contained forty-five tracts, nearly all written in the 1650s and 1660s. They appeared...

MM , a Quaker of the later seventeenth century, wrote in prose and poetry all her life. Her surviving prose consists of religious meditations and letters; her poetry, also centred on God and her faith...