Society of Friends

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...

Her death was reported to the Society of Friends in England by James Lancaster , who provided a loving presence for her at the end.

Through the letters that she wrote from prison in 1652, and of which she kept archived copies, EH helped (together with Margaret Fell , who became keeping copies at the same time) to set what...

EH 's petition argues that the impoverishment of charitable Quakers would ruin the kingdom.

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.

MH 's mother, born Ann Wood , was an abolitionist who joined the Society of Friends in 1790 at the age of twenty-six. Her family were said to have originated as French Huguenots named Dubois...

By about the age of fifteen Mary Botham (later MH ) had decided that she wished to become a writer. She faced an uphill struggle since her strict Quaker upbringing denied her all contact with...

She was born into a family of Quakers . Her parents, however, were less strict in their observances than their own parents had been, and later strayed into other beliefs. Her mother dressed Anna Mary...

The family was somewhat rigidly Quaker . As a girl MH entertained rebellious feelings about the severity of their religion, their ban on stylish clothes and artistic beauty. Early in her marriage she felt drawn...

SH , religiously awakened by a dangerous brush with smallpox, converted from Anglicanism and joined the Society of Friends .

SH edited an anthology of Quaker writings: Extracts from Divers Ancient Testimonies of Friends and Others.

SH was a leading Quaker pamphleteer of the mid eighteenth century. She published religious and moral exhortations, an anthology, and a diatribe against smallpox inoculation, in England and America.

Born English and white, to a leading family in a southern city of colonial America, Sophia descended through her mother from a family of Quaker heritage. Brought up in her father's Anglican religion, she for...

She also travelled on a missionary journey to Holland with her fellow-QuakerCatherine Payton (later Phillips) ; they set out on 21 July 1757.

In about 1667-8 LH wrote notes from Calvin 's Institutes (planning a study of them), and recorded her opinions on theological topics like church governance, baptism (as child or adult), predestination, self-examination, perfectibility (which she...