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MAH 's forebears were Quakers on the maternal side, and on both sides soberly respectable and artistic, but her Irish Home-Ruler grandfather, who had joined Friends after his marriage, had been expelled by the Friends...

EH became a Quaker , and began to dress in plain Quaker style.

EH , who already dressed from choice like a Quaker, wrote to the Society of Friends about admisssion.

She was born a Dissenter and until her marriage attended the Presbyterian church in East Bond Street, Leicester. John Wesley visited the Coltman household during her youth. Later, during her widowhood, she became a Quaker .

They got up at 3 a.m. and walked three miles to Bonsall, to canvass local gentlemen against this sporting event. They bought the bull after failing to persuade the gentlemen. Two years later they went...

EH took to spending her summers in the countryside outside Leicester, living solely on potatoes in a shepherd's cottage with a view to experiencing the lifestyle of subsistence labourers in Ireland. While in London...

She does not eschew politics on account of her readers' youth, but delivers an anti-war and anti-imperial message: The finest sight that could possibly be exhibited to me on earth, would be not a great...

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.

EH 's short introductory poem, The Widows Suite, seeking approval from a friend named T. S., exemplifies her somewhat tortured inversions of natural word-order: Moreover I not willing am / that Truth at all...

Elizabeth was born to a Baptist family, and was very active within the movement. She was already an established preacher well before she became perhaps the first person to join George Fox in the embryonic...

Her associates among the Society of Friends included the eminent, like George Fox , and the obscure, like Joan Brooksop .Joan Vokins , who was thirty years younger, sent Hooton her dear love...

Her death was reported to the Society of Friends in England by James Lancaster , who provided a loving presence for her at the end.

Through the letters that she wrote from prison in 1652, and of which she kept archived copies, EH helped (together with Margaret Fell , who became keeping copies at the same time) to set what...

EH 's petition argues that the impoverishment of charitable Quakers would ruin the kingdom.

EH 's thinking helped shape that of George Fox and thus of the Quaker movement as a whole. Emily Manners published a booklet about her for the Friends Historical Society in 1914.