Society of Friends

Before she embarked on the Quaker activism that made her famous, MF worked as a servant to a couple named Tomlinson (Richard and Elizabeth) who lived at Selby in Yorkshire. As a Quaker minister...

In Boston the two women at once fell under suspicion of being witches. They were searched for bodily marks of witchcraft (even betwixt their toes, and amongst their hair), then thrown into jail. Their...

Punishments laid down in 1657 for members of the Society of Friends daring to come to Massachusetts consisted of physical violence: whippings, cropped ears, and tongues bored with a hot iron.

The reception in Izmir of MF and her associates shows that Quakers were as unacceptable to the English establishment abroad as at home. Her celebrated audience with Mehmet IV was reported in print a few...

MF herself wrote soon after her return from Turkey: I have borne my testimony to the king unto whom I was sent, and he was very noble unto me . . . . He received...

Her proselytising effort was courteously received. The Sultan apparently recognised and acknowledged the spiritual truth in MF 's speech. It also brought her an enduring fame, chiefly within the bounds of her own Quaker faith.

Soon after joining the Society of Friends , MF was sentenced to sixteen months of imprisonment in York Castle for her obstreperous activism.

MF , now a Quaker missionary to foreign parts, landed in the West Indies (that is Barbados) in time for news of her arrival to reach England on 15 October.

She was brought up in Leeds in an English, radical Quaker family with Liberal politics who were committed to humanitarian pursuits. The family was of prosperous middle-class standing, but IOF was brought up with a...

The Ford family did not conform to the stricter rules of the Quaker denomination, and Isabella and her siblings were allowed to dance, paint, play instruments, and sing. The children also developed strong senses of...

IOF 's father, Robert Lawson Ford , was a solicitor and landowner, and a Quaker who belonged to the radical wing of the Liberal Party . He supported local Quaker MP John Bright in his...

When England declared war on Germany in August 1914, IOF , whose pacificism was ingrained from her Quaker upbringing, turned her focus to advocating for peace.

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...

This book differs from Foster's first two novels, in that it is shorter (two volumes instead of three or four), not historical but rather a sentimental novel about courtship, and originally published by Minerva as...

JF 's father, a former Quaker , was cast out by the Society of Friends when he married an Anglican wife.