Society of Friends

MM , a Quaker of the later seventeenth century, wrote in prose and poetry all her life. Her surviving prose consists of religious meditations and letters; her poetry, also centred on God and her faith...

Written expression in connection with her religious life was vital to MP from her childhood. She wrote prayers and letters, and began amassing by stages a series of autobiographical writings in the Quaker tradition. She...

JV , a late-seventeenth-century Quaker preacher, is best known for her autobiography; she also left letters addressed to individuals and epistles officially addressed to Quaker communities.

KE was a Quaker minister and missionary who, together with her companion Sarah Chevers , published in 1662 an important pamphlet detailing their experience in prison in Malta, together with their spiritual experiences, prophecies...

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...

In organising the Fund she was interested in promoting social cohesion among Quakers as well as relieving hardship.George Fox continued to frequent Swarthmoor, and at the time of the Restoration (May 1660) was...

In the same year that she became a QuakerHK gave up using produce grown by slaves: that is, she joined the sugar boycott which was gathering strength among women.

HK wrote in her diary: Are not Friends peculiarly called upon to act as school missionaries?—that is to work for African education.

HB was arrested again at a Quaker meeting, probably following the Act of Uniformity.

They got up at 3 a.m. and walked three miles to Bonsall, to canvass local gentlemen against this sporting event. They bought the bull after failing to persuade the gentlemen. Two years later they went...

Meanwhile the attitude of the Puritan government of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts hardened against the Society of Friends , so that in opting for serious Quakerism BB would be joining a persecuted minority.

With varying degrees of commitment (usually minor), Richardson immersed herself in various philosophical movements of the period. She did much of her reading at the British Museum 's Reading Room, which she revered, but elsewhere...

In Boston the two women at once fell under suspicion of being witches. They were searched for bodily marks of witchcraft (even betwixt their toes, and amongst their hair), then thrown into jail. Their...

During this same winter she was urging fellow-Quakers to strike an informal committee that could publicise her concerns about Africa: the result was a Committee for African Instruction .

During her interval of time in England in 1828-30, HK spoke to meetings of Friends about her anti-slavery concerns. Disregarding difference of faith, she quoted Hannah More in these talks.