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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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Doreen Wallace | DW
writes that she has a grievance, since she herself is experiencing oppression over tithes. She makes no claim to omniscience, broad-mindedness, or even good temper. But she is inspired by the courage and conviction... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elinor James | Having also been attacked as a woman, she defended herself as a woman. I never was so Light as to Dishonour my Husband, or Defile my Bed, she retorts. When she asserts that all she... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Catherine Phillips | Many of the reasons cited by CP
against the Methodists were true, too, of the Anglicans: too many forms and ceremonies, use of vestments, of the communion service, of baptism by sprinkling infants. Missionaries, she... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Edna Lyall | The Burges children's father, though he is against Pusey
ism, is broad-minded Lyall, Edna. The Burges Letters: A Record of Child Life in the Sixties. Longmans, Green, and Co. 33 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Dorothy White | She writes here as a millenarian, who expects the conversion of the Jews and the Second Coming of Christ. She opposes the bureaucratization of the Quaker movement
. Prophets, she says, have no regard to... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Margaret Fell | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rebecca Travers | The extremely long descriptive title promises that the Quaker
faith is the same believed by the holy men and women that gave forth the Scriptures. English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Margaret Fell | Its burden, like that of her letters to Cromwell, was an appeal for just government, and specifically for just treatment for Quaker
s. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Caroline Frances Cornwallis | The letters in Christian Sects (which is headed by three quotations, one of them from St John's Gospel) are said to have been exchanged between one of the editors of the Small Books, and... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rebecca Travers | This tract uses verse as well as prose. A threat is embodied in its title (which is again long, though not so long as that of her previous work): things to come are here declared... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Catherine Phillips | Later she reports in detail a conversation with a negro informant about slavery: he was, she says, well-fed and well-clad, but he reported cruelty although he was not himself a victim of it. She laments... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | U. A. Fanthorpe | The title sequence is important in the volume. Bailey, Rosemarie. “Temperamental Outsider”. The Ship, Vol. 66 , pp. 67-8. 68 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Hincks | EH
's short introductory poem, The Widows Suite, seeking approval from a friend named T. S., exemplifies her somewhat tortured inversions of natural word-order: Moreover I not willing am / that Truth at all... |
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