Society of Friends

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.

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....

ES worked at the Quaker headquarters in postwar Berlin.

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.

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.

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...

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

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...

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.

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...

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

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.

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.

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