Society of Friends

Anne Downer (later AW ) made her first, brief marriage, when already a Quaker and in her late thirties, to Benjamin Greenwell .

Anne Greenwell made her second marriage, to George Whitehead , a grocer, legal expert, and veteran of prison, about twelve years her junior, who was known for his defences of Friends both in court and...

Wilfrid Meynell was the seventh child of eight in a Quaker family. In 1875 he read a poem by Alice Thompson in the Pall Mall Gazette and told Father Lockhart , a friend, that she...

Her half-brother, another Abraham , who took over the school when their father retired, was a man of deep thought, immense conscientiousness, and oppositional temperament. His pacifist convictions caused him to strike a number of...

Close friends with JW at the time of her children's deaths were the QuakersSarah Ellis , Ann Martin , and especially Rebecca Travers . Later, at Twickenham, she became a friend of the barber-surgeon Mathias Perkins .

Her associates among the Society of Friends included the eminent, like George Fox , and the obscure, like Joan Brooksop .Joan Vokins , who was thirty years younger, sent Hooton her dear love...

MP formed close relationships with many of her fellow Quakers, as it was the practice of the Society to do, by means of sharing work and travel with them. She mentions particularly in her letters...

AC corresponded with and was visited by many leading members of the Society of Friends , among them Keith , Robert Barclay , Anne and George Whitehead , Isaac Penington , William Penn , and...

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...

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 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...

EH 's thinking helped shape that of George Fox and thus of the Quaker movement as a whole. Emily Manners published a booklet about her for the Friends Historical Society in 1914.

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.

Response was tepid in England. The Literary Gazette called this book by one of its long-time favourites a milk-and-water work, poised between Quakerism and satire on the fashionable world, and more successful as morality than...

Mary Delany , who read this work in manuscript, called it ingenious (in that word's old-fashioned meaning of learned or scholarly), but thought that the legal aspect still needed revision. The book received praise from...