Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Rebecca Travers
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Standard Name: Travers, Rebecca
Birth Name: Rebecca
Married Name: Rebecca Travers
Pseudonym: R. T.
RT
(with ten titles of her own, besides contributions to joint works) was said to be the most prolific Quaker pamphleteer, theologist, and polemicist of the Restoration period after Margaret Fell
.
Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Close friends with JW
at the time of her children's deaths were the QuakersSarah Ellis
, Ann Martin
, and especially Rebecca Travers
. Later, at Twickenham, she became a friend of the barber-surgeon Mathias Perkins
.
“People. Joan Whitrow”. The Twickenham Museum.
Textual Production
Joan Whitrow
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...
Textual Production
Anne Whitehead
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
Intertextuality and Influence
Caryl Churchill
The play takes place in the period immediately following Charles I
's defeat by Cromwell
, when for a short time . . . anything seemed possible.
Churchill, Caryl. Light Shining in Buckinghamshire. Pluto Press.