Society of Friends

ES was one of the best-known Quaker pamphleteers and religious autobiographers of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century. She was also known in her own localities as an outstanding preacher.

JW , a Quaker and later an Independent pamphleteer in the post-Restoration period of reaction, is remarkable both for the family politics and religious feeling of her account of the deaths of two of her...

AW petitioned with other women for the release of Friends imprisoned for their beliefs. Ten years later, at a time of declining radicalism in the Quaker sect on matters of gender, she wrote the larger...

EB , writing late in the seventeenth century, was one of the most popular women writers to be published by the Sowle Press , the best-known Quaker publishing house. Her three publications (dating from a...

EA was an early eighteenth-century Quaker minister whose preaching was highly valued and who wrote her life-story for the edification of others.

BB was a later seventeenth-century Quaker minister and autobiographer. Her writing is, typically, political as well as religious.

ML 's name is identified with that of the Quaker village of Ballitore in County Kildare, whose cultural historian she was throughout the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Though this Irish author wrote...

MF was the most prolific, as well as one of the most influential, Quaker writers. She wrote letters; her single-volume collected works contained forty-five tracts, nearly all written in the 1650s and 1660s. They appeared...

SH was a leading Quaker pamphleteer of the mid eighteenth century. She published religious and moral exhortations, an anthology, and a diatribe against smallpox inoculation, in England and America.

DW was one of the most prolific of the seventeenth-century Quaker women pamphleteers (with twenty texts), apart from the more famous Margaret Fell (whose texts are on average longer than hers). She was an incisive...

Writing in the late eighteenth century, CP centred all her literary work on her Quaker religion, yet both her poetry and prose also deal with secular politics. She wrote pamphlets, sermons, personal letters and formal...

MP was less of an author, either in spirit or practice, than her friend and associate Catherine Phillips , yet writing was an important part of her brief but highly successful career in the mid...

KE was a Quaker minister and missionary who, together with her companion Sarah Chevers , published in 1662 an important pamphlet detailing their experience in prison in Malta, together with their spiritual experiences, prophecies...

MF , one of the Valiant Sixty (that is, the earliest Quakers or members of the Society of Friends to undertake preaching journeys abroad), remained unpublished except for some strongly politicized letters and a one-sixth...

AO , who was publishing at the end of the eighteenth century and during the earlier nineteenth century, is best known as a novelist, but was also a dramatist, poet, and short-story writer. The opinions...