Barbara Blaugdone

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BB was a later seventeenth-century Quaker minister and autobiographer.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
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, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Perhaps early 1686
BB (future autobiographer) wrote and delivered a political letter to James II protesting about the treatment of Quakers .
Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
By 1705
BB died in London, by all accounts at a very advanced age.
Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

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, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

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