Society of Friends

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...

The story revolves around Jacobite plots and persecution of Quakers in the period when Queen Mary II was Regent for her husband, William , during his absences abroad. It introduces actual characters like the former...

The story presents the routine of working life for Welsh immigrants to the USA; in it RHD seeks to articulate the impact of industrialism on the proletariat. Deborah Wolfe, a hunchbacked textile worker (a...

MF , newly returned to England from Barbados, wrote a letter of encouragement and exhortation to Barbados Friends .

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...

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

Disowned by the Society of Friends in both Edinburgh and London, MD issued a self-defensive broadsheet: To the Meeting Assembled in the Chamber at Gracechurch-Street, which appears to be her final publication.

False Prophets and False Teachers Described was printed at London, bearing the authorial names of six Quakers including EH , Mary Fisher , and Thomas Aldam , all imprisoned in York Castle.

When she entered the Society of Friends , AO joined a group which was deeply suspicious of fiction and felt that writing ought to concentrate on truth-telling and moral instruction. Opie tried to conform, and...

This was the first book that she published as a Quaker , and to people in the Society of Friends she justified the practice of fiction by reminding them of the parables of Jesus. Though...

She was at this time probably a widow, and an active Quaker minister and missionary.

HB began her Quaker ministry of travelling and preaching.

DW worked for her faith as a minister and preacher for the Society of Friends .

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...

MF was an important Quaker preacher; yet her own preaching was probably eclipsed in importance by her publications and by her facilitation of the publishing of other Quakers. George Fox 's journal includes a defence...