Society of Friends

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Occupation Evelyn Sharp
At the end of her first day in BuzulukES felt that a corpse lying face down in the snow was the happiest thing she had seen all day.
John, Angela V. Evelyn Sharp: Rebel Woman, 1869–1955. Manchester University Press.
132
Within only a few days...
Occupation Kathleen E. Innes
KEI became Secretary of the Society of Friends ' influential Peace Committee ; she remained in this position, which paid the considerable sum of £300 per year, for ten years.
Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta.
93
Peace Committee Minutes, 6 May 1925.
Occupation Dorothy White
DW worked for her faith as a minister and preacher for the Society of Friends .
Occupation Mary Peisley
MP became a Quaker minister and preacher, and very soon afterwards a great traveller on missionary journeys.
Peisley, Mary, and Samuel Neale. Some Account of the Life and Religious Exercises of Mary Neale, formerly Mary Peisley. John Gough.
12, 10
Occupation Rebecca Travers
RT 's visible ministry in London belongs to the years 1659-61.
Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan.
141
Her co-religionists trusted her to persuade Joan Whitrow to submit the manuscript of a proposed publication to their committee according to their regulations...
Occupation Catherine Phillips
She duly took up the role of minister and missionary for the Society of Friends . She was active in this calling over the course of her life, preaching in Britain, North America, and Holland...
Occupation Hester Biddle
HB began her Quaker ministry of travelling and preaching.
Rickman, Lydia L. “Esther Biddle and Her Mission to Louis XIV”. Friends Historical Society Journal, Vol.
47
, pp. 38-45.
40
Occupation Margaret Fell
MF was an important Quaker preacher; yet her own preaching was probably eclipsed in importance by her publications and by her facilitation of the publishing of other Quakers. George Fox 's journal includes a defence...
Occupation Mary Fisher
Before she embarked on the Quaker activism that made her famous, MF worked as a servant to a couple named Tomlinson (Richard and Elizabeth) who lived at Selby in Yorkshire. As a Quaker minister...
Occupation George Bradshaw
He was a Quaker who worked as an engraver and printer in Manchester and Belfast. He is credited with the invention of the published railway timetable. Nothing on the scale of his comprehensive railway...
Occupation Mary Fisher
MF herself wrote soon after her return from Turkey: I have borne my testimony to the king unto whom I was sent, and he was very noble unto me . . . . He received...
Occupation Sarah Grand
As Mayoress of Bath, SG presided over a meeting at the Bath Guildhall that was held to raise support for the International Society of Friends ' appeal for donations to provide food for starving Germans.
Grand, Sarah. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand: Volume 1. Editor Heilmann, Ann, Routledge.
564
politics Margaret Fell
MF set to work to establish the Kendal Fund to help support travelling Quaker ministers and their families; she enlisted the help of locals George Taylor or Tayler and Thomas Willan .
Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan.
xi, 153
politics Elizabeth Hooton
EH was imprisoned in Lincoln for behaving as a Quaker minister.
Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. University of California Press.
127
politics Margaret Fell
MF , on her first visit to London, presented the earliest formal Quaker peace testimony to Charles II , whom she went on to visit several times more.
Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan.
136-7
Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. University of California Press.
220

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