Peters, Kate. Print Culture and the Early Quakers. Cambridge University Press.
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Travel | Mary Fisher | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Hannah Griffitts | Her sharp critical mind is also reflected in poems of political tenour. She wrote an Ode on the late Peace (of Paris, signed on 10 February 1763), an epitaph on Britannia (personification of the colonial... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Leadbeater | She prefaced these poems on religious and non-religious subjects with an account of the Quakers
. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rose Tremain | This was Tremain's longest novel so far, and her first use in full-length fiction of the seventeenth century, which had featured in several of her stories. Her protagonist-narrator, Robert Merivel, is a man of expensive... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eliza Parsons | Money issues arise early in this story. Mr Mead was curate to a small parish in Lincolnshire, and performed the whole duty within eight miles round, for the noble salary of thirty-five pounds a... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth B. Lester | Both these novels feature French and Latin tags in their text, but lack epigraphs at the head of chapters. The Quakers, which Garside calls Opie
-esque, is written in a confident, literary style and... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jessie Fothergill | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Hannah Mary Rathbone | The editor's own poems in this volume deal mainly with her family and her Quaker
beliefs. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Barbara Blaugdone | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Hooton | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Mollineux | Of a Sinful State, written the following year, shows that the young poet already understood the potential cost of belonging to the Society of Friends
: she prays to bear / The World's Revilings... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Penington | Here she justifies her financial dealings and defends herself against charges of having sought to evade the fines and imprisonment meted out to Quakers
: the implication of these charges was that she and her... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Whitehead | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Mollineux | MM
situates her letter, like other early ones to Frances, in the context of her desire for her cousin's Temporal and Eternal Welfare, that is, her conversion to the Society of Friends
. This... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Mollineux | Her version of the happy man or choice of life trope unsurprisingly specifies health, work, a house securely owned, an equall Loyal Spouse, and a friend, as ingredients for worldly happiness. She then gives... |
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