Society of Friends

MD expatiates on the internal Dictates of the Holy Spirit, or (with typographical emphasis not reproduced here) the Light which illuminates all Souls, as the Sun does Bodies, and in this Light thou shalt...

HG admired the English religious writer Isaac Watts . Much of her poetry and many of her prose essays have religious themes; several are commemorative in function. Her prose can be as imaginative as her...

Carr's biscuits were a staple of British diet. The firm was started and run by one of the great Quaker trading families, a centre of progressive employment practices and local civic responsibility. Both family and...

To sum up, PS's text gives the impression that she had a difficult man to deal with, and one who was not slow to use her gender as a weapon against her when he saw...

It argues (before such arguments had been put forward in America by Abigail Adams , Judith Sargent Murray , or Mercy Otis Warren , but drawing on beliefs current among Quakers since their mid-seventeenth-century origins)...

Although not prone to harping on God's vengeance, MF here calls the rival sect of the Rantersbeasts who, because of their libertinism, tend downwards into the earth instead of upwards to God.

This increasingly popular Quaker genre, an account of a precociously pious deathbed, was still regarded as fitting for a woman to write and publish, notwithstanding the general post-Restoration shift of opinion against women's raising their...

She does not eschew politics on account of her readers' youth, but delivers an anti-war and anti-imperial message: The finest sight that could possibly be exhibited to me on earth, would be not a great...

The nobility of the skin means a class system based on race as others are based on birth or money. Nooth's translation has no preliminary pages, no address by translator to reader. Grégoire cites his...

This offers another narrative of AT 's falling into a trance, uttering prophecies, and foiling attempts to interrupt her (this time by Quaker men) by singing over and through them. She presents herself as a...

The diaries cover holidays, travel, her famine relief work in Russia (briefly excerpted in a pamphlet printed by the Friends Relief Committee), and in Britain the General Strike and civilian life during the Second World...

HC 's entire story (which takes place on a coach journey from London to the country) is narrated by a fifty-year-old childless widower. Beresford's book is debated, and raved over by a young officer and...

The landlord, however, refused to take children, so Chavelita and at least one of her sisters spent some time staying with neighbours. These neighbours were Quakers , whose home, GE wrote many years later (in...

Thomas Fell's estate, Swarthmoor Hall in Lancashire, was MF 's home for most of her adult life, and has since become a shrine to the history of the Society of Friends .

DR , after another illness, resigned from her job in London and lived quietly for these years with a Quaker family on a Sussex fruit farm.