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According to the ODNB Anne Downer (later AW , early Quaker convert) was born at Charlbury in Oxfordshire, one of three sisters, at a less than certain date.

Anne Downer (later AW ) made her first, brief marriage, when already a Quaker and in her late thirties, to Benjamin Greenwell .

Anne Greenwell made her second marriage, to George Whitehead , a grocer, legal expert, and veteran of prison, about twelve years her junior, who was known for his defences of Friends both in court and...

The year after her second marriage, AW (with thirty-six other women, including Rebecca Travers and Mary Elson ) signed For the King and both Houses of Parliament, a petition against the imprisonment of Friends

AW petitioned with other women for the release of Friends imprisoned for their beliefs. Ten years later, at a time of declining radicalism in the Quaker sect on matters of gender, she wrote the larger...

She was baptised an Anglican , and her Anglican family disowned her when she joined the Society of Friends . Her conversion, which made her the first Londoner to join the Quakers, probably happened around...

The chief object of this text is to support the practice of separate Women's Meetings within the Quaker movement as a whole; it presents itself as refuting objections to the continuance of separate Women's and...

JW , a Quaker and later an Independent pamphleteer in the post-Restoration period of reaction, is remarkable both for the family politics and religious feeling of her account of the deaths of two of her...

JW , a Londoner with possible Welsh heritage, was a restless seeker after religious truth, apparently throughout her life. She sometimes dressed in sackcloth and ashes as a mark of penitence, for as much as...

Joan's daughter, Susannah , was born about 1662, and in youth attended the local Anglican church, which later, after becoming a Quaker , she came to regard as that abominable House, where they commit their...

Close friends with JW at the time of her children's deaths were the QuakersSarah Ellis , Ann Martin , and especially Rebecca Travers . Later, at Twickenham, she became a friend of the barber-surgeon Mathias Perkins .

Others who contributed were Rebecca Travers (who wrote the opening pages under the title of the work as a whole), Sarah Ellis , Ann Martin , and Robert Whitrow , Joan's husband, who signed a...

It traces the life of Sabina Rock, an orphan in a Quaker family, through her teenage years. This prodigy, who runs no risk of ever being mistaken for an ordinary mortal, is...

VW was the daughter not only of an educated man, but of one of the most influential intellectuals in late Victorian England. Her family on both sides was part of the intellectual ascendancy....

FW delivered what was said to be the first public address by a woman on a public occasion before a large mixed audience in New Harmony, Indiana.