Society of Friends

While on her missionary trip to America, MP wrote, jointly with Catherine Phillips and several others, an epistle addressed to a meeting of Friends : To the Yearly Meeting to be held at Curles for...

On the same occasion Sarah Chevers wrote a similar letter to her husband and children, and both women wrote other letters addressed both to individuals and to groups of Friends with a capital F. They...

Comparatively little of AC 's philosophical correspondence has survived (that is, far more letters to her than from her are extant). This correspondence cover[ed] such topics as Quakerism , Familism, Behmen ism, Spinoza ...

She spelled her name Rebecka on the former of these, but in its more conventional form on the other. The former title continues: Of That Eternal Breath begotten and brought forth not of flesh &...

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.

MD , travelling in Devon, preached a sermon about the Inner Light; the manuscript, now in the library of Friends' House in London, is entitled May Drummond's Account of Conscience and Account of...

EM published in Life's Aftermath, A Story of Quiet Peoplea picture of Quaker manners describing tense scenes at the annual Quaker meetings in London in the years of her early childhood, when several Friends...

ML continued her life-writing project with Biographical Notices of Members of the Society of Friends , who were Resident in Ireland.

The first-named is George I 's rejected queen (accused of adultery and imprisoned for life before her husband came to the English throne, while her alleged lover was assassinated). The protagonist of the second novel...

SH edited an anthology of Quaker writings: Extracts from Divers Ancient Testimonies of Friends and Others.

EB published a spirited and theologically learned defence of Quaker beliefs and practices which she entitled Truth's Vindication.

In this tract MF argues against the increasing emphasis on a specialised Quaker dress, grey in colour. She writes that young Friends . . . can soon get into an outward Garb, to be all...

CF is interested less in appearances than how things work. On her first journey she made this observation of the spire of Salisbury Cathedral: being so high it appeares to us below as sharpe...

This was Tremain's longest novel so far, and her first use in full-length fiction of the seventeenth century, which had featured in several of her stories. Her protagonist-narrator, Robert Merivel, is a man of expensive...

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...