Society of Friends

The book opens with several stages of preliminary matter. In an opening epistle to five individual Friends, EB says she has not acted out of ambition to be printed or to be popular, but in...

She celebrates Friends as the Sons and Daughters of the Lord, justifies their religious choice, and calls on their Anglican persecutors to repent, threatening them with hellfire forever if they do not.

The volume is strong in local colour and nostalgia. The narrator practises a Quaker -like interior religion. In conclusion MAK quotes first from Addison 's The Vision of Mirza, then the final two lines...

This work is prefaced by testimonies including one by Theophila Townsend . Her account of her ministry tells of physical suffering andurance: as JV wrote not long before she died, how many hundred Miles have...

Her sharp critical mind is also reflected in poems of political tenour. She wrote an Ode on the late Peace (of Paris, signed on 10 February 1763), an epitaph on Britannia (personification of the colonial...

She prefaced these poems on religious and non-religious subjects with an account of the Quakers .

The book opens with a chapter called The Universal Subordination of Women, which sets out MR 's contention that sexual inequality has been fundamental to the great civilisations known to history. A candid study...

Money issues arise early in this story. Mr Mead was curate to a small parish in Lincolnshire, and performed the whole duty within eight miles round, for the noble salary of thirty-five pounds a...

Both these novels feature French and Latin tags in their text, but lack epigraphs at the head of chapters. The Quakers, which Garside calls Opie -esque, is written in a confident, literary style and...

As in her later novel Kith and Kin, JF draws on her Quaker heritage, and her underlying distrust of luxury and material comfort, for a sympathetic portrayal of nineteenth-century Quaker life. Inspired by the...

DW writes that she has a grievance, since she herself is experiencing oppression over tithes. She makes no claim to omniscience, broad-mindedness, or even good temper. But she is inspired by the courage and conviction...

BB relates her conversion to Quakerism back in the 1650s, and its consequences for just the first three years of her ministry. First come the adverse results of being a Friend: the resultant collapse of...

Many of the reasons cited by CP against the Methodists were true, too, of the Anglicans: too many forms and ceremonies, use of vestments, of the communion service, of baptism by sprinkling infants. Missionaries, she...

She writes here as a millenarian, who expects the conversion of the Jews and the Second Coming of Christ. She opposes the bureaucratization of the Quaker movement . Prophets, she says, have no regard to...

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