Lyall, Edna. The Burges Letters: A Record of Child Life in the Sixties. Longmans, Green, and Co.
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Travel | Harriet Jacobs | Back in the USA she passed the money she had raised to a Quaker
organization, but suggested that the unsettled political situation in the South made it a poor time for building. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Edna Lyall | The Burges children's father, though he is against Pusey
ism, is broad-minded Lyall, Edna. The Burges Letters: A Record of Child Life in the Sixties. Longmans, Green, and Co. 33 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Margaret Fell | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elinor James | Having also been attacked as a woman, she defended herself as a woman. I never was so Light as to Dishonour my Husband, or Defile my Bed, she retorts. When she asserts that all she... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Whitehead | The chief object of this text is to support the practice of separate Women's Meetings within the Quaker
movement as a whole; it presents itself as refuting objections to the continuance of separate Women's and... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Margaret Fell | Its burden, like that of her letters to Cromwell, was an appeal for just government, and specifically for just treatment for Quaker
s. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Caroline Frances Cornwallis | The letters in Christian Sects (which is headed by three quotations, one of them from St John's Gospel) are said to have been exchanged between one of the editors of the Small Books, and... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Penington | Here she justifies her financial dealings and defends herself against charges of having sought to evade the fines and imprisonment meted out to Quakers
: the implication of these charges was that she and her... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | U. A. Fanthorpe | The title sequence is important in the volume. Bailey, Rosemarie. “Temperamental Outsider”. The Ship, Vol. 66 , pp. 67-8. 68 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Hincks | EH
's short introductory poem, The Widows Suite, seeking approval from a friend named T. S., exemplifies her somewhat tortured inversions of natural word-order: Moreover I not willing am / that Truth at all... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Margaret Fell | This tract opens in hard-hitting style: We who are the People of God called Quakers
, who are hated and despised, and every where spoken against, as people not fit to live. . .... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Joan Vokins | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Margaret Fell | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Joan Vokins | This work is prefaced by testimonies including one by Theophila Townsend
. Her account of her ministry tells of physical suffering andurance: as JV
wrote not long before she died, how many hundred Miles have... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Maude Royden | The book opens with a chapter called The Universal Subordination of Women, which sets out MR
's contention that sexual inequality has been fundamental to the great civilisations known to history. A candid study... |
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