Society of Friends

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...

Its burden, like that of her letters to Cromwell, was an appeal for just government, and specifically for just treatment for Quaker s.

The letters in Christian Sects (which is headed by three quotations, one of them from St John's Gospel) are said to have been exchanged between one of the editors of the Small Books, and...

The title sequence is important in the volume. Other topics include the poet's mother, the Quaker pacifist George Fox , and the theme of the woman writer's particular struggles, for which UAF employs Virginia Woolf

EH 's short introductory poem, The Widows Suite, seeking approval from a friend named T. S., exemplifies her somewhat tortured inversions of natural word-order: Moreover I not willing am / that Truth at all...

This tract opens in hard-hitting style: We who are the People of God called Quakers , who are hated and despised, and every where spoken against, as people not fit to live. . ....

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...

The publisher was said to have offered her a thousand pounds for this novel and had gone so far as to advertise it for sale. On 6 December AO wrote to Elizabeth Fry denying...

MAK apparently published this year, with her name, Memoirs of the Lives and Persecutions of the Primitive Quakers Exemplifying the Obedience of Faith in Some of the Early Members of the Society; a second...

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 &...

Quaker minister William Simpson , who had died in Barbados on 8 December 1670, was commemorated in A Short Relation of his life and death, including a testimony by EH .

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...

MF addressed the restored monarch boldly and directly in a number of works; she was the first to explain to him the non-violent nature of Quakerism .

In about 1667-8 LH wrote notes from Calvin 's Institutes (planning a study of them), and recorded her opinions on theological topics like church governance, baptism (as child or adult), predestination, self-examination, perfectibility (which she...

Paula McDowell records this business decision, taken some years (or possibly only some weeks) after EB 's death. Tace Sowle specifically mentioned for inclusion Bathurst's The Sayings of Women, 1683, which appears in the...