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Author summary | Sophia Hume | |
Author summary | Elizabeth Bathurst | EB
, writing late in the seventeenth century, was one of the most popular women writers to be published by the Sowle Press
, the best-known Quaker
publishing house. Her three publications (dating from a... |
Author summary | Barbara Blaugdone | |
Author summary | Elizabeth Hooton | EH
, the earliest of the female Quaker
writers, left a printed prophecy, petition, and testimony, as well as a manuscript attack on colonial settlements in New England. Literary historian Phyllis Mack
observes that... |
Author summary | Elizabeth Ashbridge | |
Publishing | Catherine Phillips | |
Publishing | L. S. Bevington | |
Publishing | May Kendall | 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... |
Publishing | Isabella Lickbarrow | 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... |
Publishing | Margaret Fell | 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... |
Publishing | Margaret Fell | |
Publishing | Barbara Blaugdone | |
Reception | Anne Audland | 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. Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. University of California Press. 385n110 |
Reception | Isabella Banks | Nobody expects a lady to be familiar with military details, but it is only reasonable that when she ventures on the topic, she should possess, at all events, elementary knowledge of the subject, Athenæum. J. Lection. 2603 (1877): 336 |
Reception | Mary Fisher |
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