Society of Friends

Before she embarked on the Quaker activism that made her famous, MF worked as a servant to a couple named Tomlinson (Richard and Elizabeth) who lived at Selby in Yorkshire. As a Quaker minister...

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. Within only a few days...

FW delivered what was said to be the first public address by a woman on a public occasion before a large mixed audience in New Harmony, Indiana.

As Mayoress of Bath, SG presided over a meeting at the Bath Guildhall that was held to raise support for the International Society of Friends ' appeal for donations to provide food for starving Germans.

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...

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...

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...

She was called to the ministry around 1734, which, Thomas Story reported, caused renewed pain to her family. In England she met with all kinds of recognition which most Quaker preachers never dreamed of....

RT 's visible ministry in London belongs to the years 1659-61. Her co-religionists trusted her to persuade Joan Whitrow to submit the manuscript of a proposed publication to their committee according to their regulations...

MP became a Quaker minister and preacher, and very soon afterwards a great traveller on missionary journeys.

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.

ES worked at the Quaker headquarters in postwar Berlin.

Under the Commonwealth, AA was imprisoned at Bishop Auckland in County Durham for her Quaker preaching.

As persecution against dissenters increased, AD took on the project of combating this trend in print. For some years at the turn of the century (when she already thought of herself as an old woman)...

HK wrote in her diary: Are not Friends peculiarly called upon to act as school missionaries?—that is to work for African education.