The protagonist and letter-writer, Samuel Pumphrey,
Smedley, Constance. Justice Walk. G. Allen and Unwin.
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is a a Quaker
clerk, puritan, provincial and utterly inartistic,
Smedley, Constance, and Maxwell Armfield. Crusaders. Chatto & Windus.
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as well as initially self-righteous. Before the story begins he was saving money to marry his beloved...
Birth
Anne Whitehead
According to the ODNB Anne Downer (later AW
, early Quaker
convert) was born at Charlbury in Oxfordshire, one of three sisters, at a less than certain date.
An Anne Downer, daughter of Andrew...
Birth
Elizabeth Hooton
Elizabeth Carrier, who later as EH
became one of the earliest Quaker
preachers, was born.
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.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.