Society of Friends

DR 's first book, The Quakers Past and Present, was published; it reflects her admiration for the Quakers' affirmative perspective on life and their egalitarian attitudes towards women.

As a well-known public speaker and advocate for many causes, LOC contributed articles on a number of other topical concerns. In The Heart of Armenia, for example, she recounts her journey across Bulgaria to...

MP 's manuscripts survive at Friends House in London (headquarters of the Society of Friends ) and in other Quaker archives. A body of critical work is accumulating around her, and her writing is now...

DR 's second book about the Quakers was published: an anthology derived from the writings of the movement's early leader, Gleanings from the Work of George Fox.

Equiano presumably had a hand in composing an address to London Quakers from Africans living in the city, which he and others presented in October 1785. The address thanks Quaker Gentlemen for the publication of...

AT is said to have spoken a series of doggerel verses, many of them directed against the Quakers , which an amanuensis took down from her lips.

DW broke a twenty-year silence with several appeals to Quakers not to tone down their radicalism, including A Salutation of Love to all the Tender-Hearted, Universal Love to the Lost, and The Day...

Through the letters that she wrote from prison in 1652, and of which she kept archived copies, EH helped (together with Margaret Fell , who became keeping copies at the same time) to set what...

AA contributed a testimony on her late first husband , and a letter to him, to the collaborative Quaker text The Memory of the Righteous Revived.

Docwra wrote to rebuke Bugg , who had written against her that April a tirade entitled Jezebel Withstood, and Her Daughter Anne Dockwra, Publickly Reprov'd. He incorporated this ad feminam attack in two works...

The two epigraphs inserted at the beginning of this final novel added an element of seriousness to the work: the first is from Aeschylus and the second from the seventeenth-century QuakerWilliam Penn . A...

While on her missionary trip to America, MP wrote, jointly with Catherine Phillips and several others, an epistle addressed to a meeting of Friends : To the Yearly Meeting to be held at Curles for...

The nobility of the skin means a class system based on race as others are based on birth or money. Nooth's translation has no preliminary pages, no address by translator to reader. Grégoire cites his...

This increasingly popular Quaker genre, an account of a precociously pious deathbed, was still regarded as fitting for a woman to write and publish, notwithstanding the general post-Restoration shift of opinion against women's raising their...

She does not eschew politics on account of her readers' youth, but delivers an anti-war and anti-imperial message: The finest sight that could possibly be exhibited to me on earth, would be not a great...