Rebecca Travers

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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, 1994.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
  • BirthName: Rebecca
    Her surname at birth is unknown. For her Christian name some sources use the variant spelling Rebeckah.

  • Married: Travers
  • Pseudonym: R. T.

Milestones

About 1609

RT was born (under some different birth name).
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, 1990.

1663

RT published A Testimony Concerning the Light and Life of Jesus.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

15 June 1688

RT died in London at nearly eighty. William Penn preached her funeral sermon.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Biography

Birth and Religion

About 1609

RT was born (under some different birth name).
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, 1990.