Society of Friends

A loyal, life-long member of the Society of Friends , PW was anything but narrow in her beliefs and practice. In middle life she wrote that without disparaging the value of [t]rue religion, she desired...

Charney Manor, at Charney Bassett, the village where JV grew up, is now (2016) a conference centre owned by the Society of Friends , which especially welcomes delegates involved in conflict resolution and international...

When JV began to think about converting to Quakerism, her immediate family opposed it. In the end, however, they all followed her into the Society of Friends . She later wrote that her relationship with...

Not long after her conversion JV became a Quaker minister and missionary. She and her sister Jane Sansom became local leaders of the movement, strong supporters of the women's meetings which in the later 1670s...

She celebrates Friends as the Sons and Daughters of the Lord, justifies their religious choice, and calls on their Anglican persecutors to repent, threatening them with hellfire forever if they do not.

This work is prefaced by testimonies including one by Theophila Townsend . Her account of her ministry tells of physical suffering andurance: as JV wrote not long before she died, how many hundred Miles have...

JV , a late-seventeenth-century Quaker preacher, is best known for her autobiography; she also left letters addressed to individuals and epistles officially addressed to Quaker communities.

Born in the yeoman class, she was brought up an Anglican . In youth and for years after her marriage she felt spiritually lost, as a ship without an anchor among the merciless waves.

This was Tremain's longest novel so far, and her first use in full-length fiction of the seventeenth century, which had featured in several of her stories. Her protagonist-narrator, Robert Merivel, is a man of expensive...

She was originally a Baptist and was converted to Quakerism by James Nayler . She remained loyal to Nayler, even after he was disgraced and condemned by George Fox . RT organised the first women's...

RT 's visible ministry in London belongs to the years 1659-61. Her co-religionists trusted her to persuade Joan Whitrow to submit the manuscript of a proposed publication to their committee according to their regulations...

She spelled her name Rebecka on the former of these, but in its more conventional form on the other. The former title continues: Of That Eternal Breath begotten and brought forth not of flesh &...

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...

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...

This was designed to refute controversial texts published against Quaker doctrine by Robert Cobbet (A Word to the Upright, 1668) and Elizabeth Atkinson (Breif [sic] and Plain Discovery of the Labourers in...