Barbara Blaugdone

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BB was a later seventeenth-century Quaker minister and autobiographer.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Her writing is, typically, political as well as religious.

Milestones

1609

The future Barbara Blaugdone , Quaker minister and autobiographer, was born, most likely somewhere in the West Country, perhaps at Bristol, where she later lived.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.

Perhaps early 1686

BB (future autobiographer) wrote and delivered a political letter to James II protesting about the treatment of Quakers .
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.

By 1705

BB died in London, by all accounts at a very advanced age.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Biography

Origins

1609

The future Barbara Blaugdone , Quaker minister and autobiographer, was born, most likely somewhere in the West Country, perhaps at Bristol, where she later lived.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.

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