Society of Friends

AO , who was publishing at the end of the eighteenth century and during the earlier nineteenth century, is best known as a novelist, but was also a dramatist, poet, and short-story writer. The opinions...

MF was the most prolific, as well as one of the most influential, Quaker writers. She wrote letters; her single-volume collected works contained forty-five tracts, nearly all written in the 1650s and 1660s. They appeared...

DW was one of the most prolific of the seventeenth-century Quaker women pamphleteers (with twenty texts), apart from the more famous Margaret Fell (whose texts are on average longer than hers). She was an incisive...

Writing in the late eighteenth century, CP centred all her literary work on her Quaker religion, yet both her poetry and prose also deal with secular politics. She wrote pamphlets, sermons, personal letters and formal...

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...

KEI became a member of the Society of Friends ' Slavery and Protection of Native Races Committee; she remained a member until 1937.

Under the Commonwealth, AA was imprisoned at Bishop Auckland in County Durham for her Quaker preaching.

As persecution against dissenters increased, AD took on the project of combating this trend in print. For some years at the turn of the century (when she already thought of herself as an old woman)...

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...

A conference on slavery organized by KEI for the Society of Friends ' Slavery and Protection of Native Races Committee was held at Friends' House , London.

DW spent a large part of the years 1662-1663 in various London prisons for the offence of Quaker preaching, which the Act of Uniformity of May 1662 had pronounced to be illegal.

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.

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

ES attended the second congress of the International Committee of Women for Permanent Peace , which was held at Zurich on 12-17 May 1919 (and which gave the organization its lasting name of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

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