Dorothy White

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DW was one of the most prolific of the seventeenth-century Quaker women pamphleteers (with twenty texts), apart from the more famous Margaret Fell (whose texts are on average longer than hers). She was an incisive commentator on religious and political issues. Much of her work is prophetic, and some is in verse.
  • BirthName: Dorothy White
    It is not known for certain if White was DW 's name by birth or marriage.

  • Pseudonym: D. W.
  • Indexed: Dorothy Wight

Milestones

About 1630

DW was born, probably at Weymouth in Dorset.
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.

1684

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 Dawned both to Jews and Gentiles.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

6 February 1686

DW died of a fever in London, according to early records, not long after her last published appeal to Quakers not to forget their heroic and radical past.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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.

Biography

Birth and Background

About 1630

DW was born, probably at Weymouth in Dorset.
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.

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