Society of Friends

VA was accepted as a member of the Society of Friends ; she remained a Quaker during the remaining two months of her life.

As a child, VA was a fervent Anglo-Catholic, following her mother's example. Later in life she became a Roman Catholic , struggled with her Catholicism, and eventually became a Quaker .

She left the Dublin cousin because she hated his Quaker religion. Naturally vivacious, this teenaged widow found her cousin's gloomy sense of sorrow and conviction, and his disapproval of singing and dancing more than...

She had a final struggle to undertake before, while visiting her Quaker relatives at Philadelphia, she finally humbled her pride by joining the Society of Friends , which she had for so long despised...

EA died on her Quaker missionary journey around Ireland, at a Friend's house in County Carlow.

EA was an early eighteenth-century Quaker minister whose preaching was highly valued and who wrote her life-story for the edification of others.

AA and her first husband, John Audland , were converted to Quakerism by George Fox .

Under the Commonwealth, AA was imprisoned at Bishop Auckland in County Durham for her Quaker preaching.

AA contributed a testimony on her late first husband , and a letter to him, to the collaborative Quaker text The Memory of the Righteous Revived.

The Friends Library began publication in Philadelphia; its first volume was A Short Account of the Life of Anne Camm , a Minister of the Gospel, in the Society of Friends.

AA is a minor but early Quaker writer (active from the mid seventeenth century) , whose chief genres are letters and the religious testimony.

The Society of Friends lived up to its name. AA belonged to a network of activists who kept closely in touch, finding time in their busy lives for affectionate and detailed correspondence.

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 came from an upper middle-class business family whose background included Quaker and Anglican elements. She staunchly upheld the class system, identifying herself with the upper classes. As an adult, she assumed an anti-suffrage stance...