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Occupation | Mary Fisher | |
Occupation | Evelyn Sharp | |
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. 171 That is, the first public address... |
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 | 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... |
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. 564 |
Occupation | May Drummond | She was called to the ministry around 1734, which, Thomas Story reported, caused renewed pain to her family. Story, Thomas. 714 |
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. 132 |
Occupation | Dorothy White | DW
worked for her faith as a minister and preacher for the Society of Friends
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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. 141 |
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... |
politics | Barbara Blaugdone | Her religious witness had, owing to the persecution of Quakers
, its political side. She was clearly a persuasive speaker, as shown by her success with the Mayors of Basingstoke and of Marlborough. She also... |
politics | May Kendall | During the second half of her life, from 1898, MK
gave up writing fiction to focus on social reform, a shift that culminated in the appearance of How the Labourer Lives in 1913. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research. 123 |
politics | Kathleen E. Innes | KEI
became a member of the Society of Friends
' Slavery and Protection of Native Races Committee; she remained a member until 1937. Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta. 250 |
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