Society of Friends

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Connections Author name Excerpt
politics Margaret Fell
MF , on her first visit to London, presented the earliest formal Quaker peace testimony to Charles II , whom she went on to visit several times more.
Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan.
136-7
Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. University of California Press.
220
politics Mary Fisher
Soon after joining the Society of Friends , MF was sentenced to sixteen months of imprisonment in York Castle for her obstreperous activism.
Peters, Kate. Print Culture and the Early Quakers. Cambridge University Press.
37
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
politics Margaret Fell
Arrested in her turn at Holker, MF was imprisoned in Lancaster Castle for her Quaker activism.
Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan.
xii, xiii
politics Mary Mollineux
Mary Southworth , now in her early thirties, wrote the news to her cousin Frances that she was imprisoned with many others in Lancaster Castle for attending a Quaker meeting and refusing to swear the...
politics Isabella Ormston Ford
When England declared war on Germany in August 1914, IOF , whose pacificism was ingrained from her Quaker upbringing, turned her focus to advocating for peace.
Hannam, June. Isabella Ford. Basil Blackwell.
162-3
politics Mary Mollineux
MM , at the palace of the Bishop of Chester and Lancaster, debated with Bishop Nicholas Stratford and other ecclesiastics on the legality, or rather the scripture authority for, compulsory payment of tithes to the...
Occupation Evelyn Sharp
ES worked at the Quaker headquarters in postwar Berlin.
Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head.
176
Occupation Frances Wright
FW delivered what was said to be the first public address by a woman on a public occasion before a large mixed audience
Eckhardt, Celia Morris. Fanny Wright. Harvard University Press.
171
in New Harmony, Indiana.
That is, the first public address...
Occupation Kathleen E. Innes
KEI became Secretary of the Society of Friends ' influential Peace Committee ; she remained in this position, which paid the considerable sum of £300 per year, for ten years.
Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta.
93
Peace Committee Minutes, 6 May 1925.
Occupation Joan Vokins
Not long after her conversion JV became a Quaker minister and missionary. She and her sister Jane Sansom became local leaders of the movement, strong supporters of the women's meetings which in the later 1670s...
Occupation Mary Peisley
MP became a Quaker minister and preacher, and very soon afterwards a great traveller on missionary journeys.
Peisley, Mary, and Samuel Neale. Some Account of the Life and Religious Exercises of Mary Neale, formerly Mary Peisley. John Gough.
12, 10
Occupation Hester Biddle
HB began her Quaker ministry of travelling and preaching.
Rickman, Lydia L. “Esther Biddle and Her Mission to Louis XIV”. Friends Historical Society Journal, Vol.
47
, pp. 38-45.
40
Occupation Margaret Fell
MF was an important Quaker preacher; yet her own preaching was probably eclipsed in importance by her publications and by her facilitation of the publishing of other Quakers. George Fox 's journal includes a defence...
Occupation Evelyn Sharp
At the end of her first day in BuzulukES felt that a corpse lying face down in the snow was the happiest thing she had seen all day.
John, Angela V. Evelyn Sharp: Rebel Woman, 1869–1955. Manchester University Press.
132
Within only a few days...
Occupation Mary Fisher
Before she embarked on the Quaker activism that made her famous, MF worked as a servant to a couple named Tomlinson (Richard and Elizabeth) who lived at Selby in Yorkshire. As a Quaker minister...

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