Society of Friends

RT 's visible ministry in London belongs to the years 1659-61. Her co-religionists trusted her to persuade Joan Whitrow to submit the manuscript of a proposed publication to their committee according to their regulations...

HB began her Quaker ministry of travelling and preaching.

MF was an important Quaker preacher; yet her own preaching was probably eclipsed in importance by her publications and by her facilitation of the publishing of other Quakers. George Fox 's journal includes a defence...

Before she embarked on the Quaker activism that made her famous, MF worked as a servant to a couple named Tomlinson (Richard and Elizabeth) who lived at Selby in Yorkshire. As a Quaker minister...

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.

He was a Quaker who worked as an engraver and printer in Manchester and Belfast. He is credited with the invention of the published railway timetable. Nothing on the scale of his comprehensive railway...

MF herself wrote soon after her return from Turkey: I have borne my testimony to the king unto whom I was sent, and he was very noble unto me . . . . He received...

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.

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...

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...

She was at this time probably a widow, and an active Quaker minister and missionary.

MF , newly returned to England from Barbados, wrote a letter of encouragement and exhortation to Barbados Friends .

MP , already securely a Quaker , wrote her first autobiographical text: A Brief Account of Some of My Exercises from My Childhood . . ..

By about the age of fifteen Mary Botham (later MH ) had decided that she wished to become a writer. She faced an uphill struggle since her strict Quaker upbringing denied her all contact with...

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.