Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head, 1933.
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Occupation | Evelyn Sharp | |
Occupation | Catherine Phillips | 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... |
Occupation | Hester Biddle | |
Occupation | Dorothy White | DW
worked for her faith as a minister and preacher for the Society of Friends
. |
Occupation | Margaret Fell | 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... |
Occupation | Kathleen E. Innes | KEI
became Secretary of the Society of Friends
' influential Peace Committee
; she remained in this position, which paid the considerable sum of £300 per year, for ten years. Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta, 1995. 93 Peace Committee Minutes, 6 May 1925. |
Occupation | Mary Fisher | |
Occupation | Evelyn Sharp | At the end of her first day in BuzulukES
felt that a corpse lying face down in the snow was the happiest thing she had seen all day. John, Angela V. Evelyn Sharp: Rebel Woman, 18691955. Manchester University Press, 2009. 132 |
Occupation | Joan Vokins | 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... |
Occupation | Frances Wright | FW
delivered what was said to be the first public address by a woman on a public occasion before a large mixed audience Eckhardt, Celia Morris. Fanny Wright. Harvard University Press, 1984. 171 That is, the first public address... |
Occupation | George Bradshaw | He was a Quaker
who worked as an engraver and printer in Manchester and Belfast. He is credited with the invention of the published railway timetable. Nothing on the scale of his comprehensive railway... |
Occupation | Mary Fisher | MF
herself wrote soon after her return from Turkey: I have borne my testimony to the king unto whom I was sent, and he was very noble unto me . . . . He received... |
politics | Ann Bridge | AB
also wanted to help after witnessing the appalling conditions in which 90,000 refugee ex-soldiers of the Spanish Republican Army
were corralled behind barbed wire on an unsheltered beach in southern France, succumbing to pneumonia... |
politics | Elizabeth Heyrick | They got up at 3 a.m. and walked three miles to Bonsall, to canvass local gentlemen against this sporting event. They bought the bull after failing to persuade the gentlemen. Two years later they went... |
politics | Margaret Fell | MF
set to work to establish the Kendal Fund to help support travelling Quaker
ministers and their families; she enlisted the help of locals George Taylor or Tayler
and Thomas Willan
. Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan, 1994. xi, 153 |
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