Society of Friends

Of a Sinful State, written the following year, shows that the young poet already understood the potential cost of belonging to the Society of Friends : she prays to bear / The World's Revilings...

The extremely long descriptive title promises that the Quaker faith is the same believed by the holy men and women that gave forth the Scriptures. It defines this faith in opposition to wrong faiths (probably...

MM situates her letter, like other early ones to Frances, in the context of her desire for her cousin's Temporal and Eternal Welfare, that is, her conversion to the Society of Friends . This...

This tract uses verse as well as prose. A threat is embodied in its title (which is again long, though not so long as that of her previous work): things to come are here declared...

Later she reports in detail a conversation with a negro informant about slavery: he was, she says, well-fed and well-clad, but he reported cruelty although he was not himself a victim of it. She laments...

Her version of the happy man or choice of life trope unsurprisingly specifies health, work, a house securely owned, an equall Loyal Spouse, and a friend, as ingredients for worldly happiness. She then gives...

The letter pulls no punches, enumerating the causes for the bad state of the Society of Friends in Virginia, which the writers say has given them much pain. They anatomise the exceedingly low state...

Comparatively little of AC 's philosophical correspondence has survived (that is, far more letters to her than from her are extant). This correspondence cover[ed] such topics as Quakerism , Familism, Behmen ism, Spinoza ...

In The Harlot's Vail Rent, which appeared during the same year, RT again reproved Elizabeth Atkinson for leaving the Society of Friends and switching to the opposite side in printed controversy.

On the same occasion Sarah Chevers wrote a similar letter to her husband and children, and both women wrote other letters addressed both to individuals and to groups of Friends with a capital F. They...

MD , travelling in Devon, preached a sermon about the Inner Light; the manuscript, now in the library of Friends' House in London, is entitled May Drummond's Account of Conscience and Account of...

The obscure EH published her only known work, The Poor Widows [sic] Mite, a long poem written in justification of the Meetings of the Society of Friends , which is interesting for its distinctively female imagery.

Others who contributed were Rebecca Travers (who wrote the opening pages under the title of the work as a whole), Sarah Ellis , Ann Martin , and Robert Whitrow , Joan's husband, who signed a...

The year after her second marriage, AW (with thirty-six other women, including Rebecca Travers and Mary Elson ) signed For the King and both Houses of Parliament, a petition against the imprisonment of Friends

EM published in Life's Aftermath, A Story of Quiet Peoplea picture of Quaker manners describing tense scenes at the annual Quaker meetings in London in the years of her early childhood, when several Friends...