Society of Friends

Among other warm relationships she formed with fellow members of the Society of Friends , the most important was with Sarah Chevers or Cheevers , with whom she shared voyages and persecution. Chevers, about ten...

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...

The reprintings show the impact that this text had on contemporary Quakers . Anthologists Elspeth Graham , Elaine Hobby , Hilary Hinds , and Helen Wilcox call it as much a text of love as of resistance.

KE was a Quaker minister and missionary who, together with her companion Sarah Chevers , published in 1662 an important pamphlet detailing their experience in prison in Malta, together with their spiritual experiences, prophecies...

The title sequence is important in the volume. Other topics include the poet's mother, the Quaker pacifist George Fox , and the theme of the woman writer's particular struggles, for which UAF employs Virginia Woolf

In organising the Fund she was interested in promoting social cohesion among Quakers as well as relieving hardship.George Fox continued to frequent Swarthmoor, and at the time of the Restoration (May 1660) was...

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...

This text was highly topical. Manasseh ben Israel had arrived in England the previous October to negotiate with Cromwell over the return of the Jews to England, which had been legislated in December. MF asked...

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.

Each writer distinguishes sharply between the way Quaker s live in love, employing ministers chosen by God, and the way Anglican s and others live in the world, under ministers chosen by man. MF writes...

Its burden, like that of her letters to Cromwell, was an appeal for just government, and specifically for just treatment for Quaker s.

MF says that she personally travelled two hundred miles to deliver into the king 's own hand one of her Restoration tracts, A Declaration and an Information from us the People of God called Quakers

MF and her family were converted to Quakerism by George Fox .

This tract opens in hard-hitting style: We who are the People of God called Quakers , who are hated and despised, and every where spoken against, as people not fit to live. . ....

MF set to work to establish the Kendal Fund to help support travelling Quaker ministers and their families; she enlisted the help of locals George Taylor or Tayler and Thomas Willan .