Society of Friends

The first-named is George I 's rejected queen (accused of adultery and imprisoned for life before her husband came to the English throne, while her alleged lover was assassinated). The protagonist of the second novel...

Many of the reasons cited by CP against the Methodists were true, too, of the Anglicans: too many forms and ceremonies, use of vestments, of the communion service, of baptism by sprinkling infants. Missionaries, she...

These make up an important document in Quaker history. Though she begins her memoirs in formal, somewhat wordy style, CP tells a good story, particularly in the passages about her adventures in North America...

Later she reports in detail a conversation with a negro informant about slavery: he was, she says, well-fed and well-clad, but he reported cruelty although he was not himself a victim of it. She laments...

Catherine Payton (later CP ) prayed, in our little meeting at Dudley, that she might become a Quaker minister.

CP wrote at Redruth, Cornwall, An Epistle to Friends in Ireland, which was published that year at Dublin.

Writing in the late eighteenth century, CP centred all her literary work on her Quaker religion, yet both her poetry and prose also deal with secular politics. She wrote pamphlets, sermons, personal letters and formal...

She was a middle-class Englishwoman, a Quaker both by birth and conversion.

She duly took up the role of minister and missionary for the Society of Friends . She was active in this calling over the course of her life, preaching in Britain, North America, and Holland...

MP and her second husband made the momentous conversion to Quakerism , though the mediation of two Friends named Thomas Curtis and William Simpson .

MP , already securely a Quaker , wrote her first autobiographical text: A Brief Account of Some of My Exercises from My Childhood . . ..

Written expression in connection with her religious life was vital to MP from her childhood. She wrote prayers and letters, and began amassing by stages a series of autobiographical writings in the Quaker tradition. She...

MP came from the English middle class, and was born into the Anglican church. After an early disregard for religion, then a long period of spiritual struggle, she became a Quaker .

MP 's surviving letters in general concern themselves with practical and ideological issues in the Society of Friends . She strongly supports the practice of separate women's meetings.

Here she justifies her financial dealings and defends herself against charges of having sought to evade the fines and imprisonment meted out to Quakers : the implication of these charges was that she and her...