Society of Friends

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...

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

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...

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

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

In The Harlot's Vail Rent, which appeared during the same year, RT again reproved Elizabeth Atkinson for leaving the Society of Friends and switching to the opposite side in printed controversy.

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...

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...

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 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

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...