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Occupation May Drummond
She was called to the ministry around 1734, which, Thomas Story reported, caused renewed pain to her family.
Story, Thomas. The Life of Thomas Story. Isaac Thompson, 1747.
714
In England she met with all kinds of recognition which most Quaker preachers never dreamed of....
Occupation Rebecca Travers
RT 's visible ministry in London belongs to the years 1659-61.
Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan, 1994.
141
Her co-religionists trusted her to persuade Joan Whitrow to submit the manuscript of a proposed publication to their committee according to their regulations...
Occupation Sarah Grand
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.
Grand, Sarah. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand: Volume 1. Editor Heilmann, Ann, Routledge, 2000.
564
Occupation Mary Peisley
MP became a Quaker minister and preacher, and very soon afterwards a great traveller on missionary journeys.
Peisley, Mary, and Samuel Neale. Some Account of the Life and Religious Exercises of Mary Neale, formerly Mary Peisley. John Gough, 1795.
12, 10
Occupation Evelyn Sharp
ES worked at the Quaker headquarters in postwar Berlin.
Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head, 1933.
176
Occupation Hester Biddle
HB began her Quaker ministry of travelling and preaching.
Rickman, Lydia L. “Esther Biddle and Her Mission to Louis XIV”. Friends Historical Society Journal, Vol.
47
, 1955, pp. 38-45.
40
Occupation Dorothy White
DW worked for her faith as a minister and preacher for the Society of Friends .
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 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 Mary Fisher
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...
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 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, 1869–1955. Manchester University Press, 2009.
132
Within only a few days...
politics Kathleen E. Innes
A conference on slavery organized by KEI for the Society of Friends ' Slavery and Protection of Native Races Committee was held at Friends' House , London.
Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta, 1995.
111n47, 250
politics Evelyn Sharp
Both kept up their political activity during the 1930s with active membership of such organizations as the National Council for Civil Liberties (whose first executive committee Sharp sat on) and of PEN International . Even...
politics Hannah Kilham
In the same year that she became a QuakerHK gave up using produce grown by slaves: that is, she joined the sugar boycott which was gathering strength among women.
Kilham, Hannah. Memoir of the late Hannah Killam. Editor Biller, Sarah, Harvey and Darton, 1837.
110

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