Society of Friends

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(that is, the earliest Quakers or members of the Society of Friends to undertake preaching journeys abroad), remained unpublished except for some strongly politicized letters and a one-sixth...

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...

AA is a minor but early Quaker writer (active from the mid seventeenth century) , whose chief genres are letters and the religious testimony.

HB is one of the most powerful as well as one of the more prolific seventeenth-century Quaker writers of polemical prophecies or tracts. She depicts in hypnotic, biblical language the imminent end of the world...

MF says that she personally travelled two hundred miles to deliver into the king 's own hand one of her Restoration tracts, A Declaration and an Information from us the People of God called Quakers

BB (future autobiographer) wrote and delivered a political letter to James II protesting about the treatment of Quakers .

LSB probably first reached print with two sonnets in the Quaker periodical the Friends' Quarterly Examiner, titled Sonnet and A Double Sonnet. She may have added a third sonnet in the same journal...

In the twentieth century, MK re-focused her talents on non-fiction [and] sociological investigations with members of the Rowntree family. She first worked with John Wilhelm Rowntree on a series of powerful essays in his York...

CP wrote at Redruth, Cornwall, An Epistle to Friends in Ireland, which was published that year at Dublin.

Subscribers included Wordsworth , Southey , and De Quincey , all of them writers living in the area. Commentator Jonathan Wordsworth suggests that the subscription list, which clearly took careful fund-raising work, may have been...

This text was highly topical. Manasseh ben Israel had arrived in England the previous October to negotiate with Cromwell over the return of the Jews to England, which had been legislated in December. MF asked...

Her proselytising effort was courteously received. The Sultan apparently recognised and acknowledged the spiritual truth in MF 's speech. It also brought her an enduring fame, chiefly within the bounds of her own Quaker faith.

The Friends Library began publication in Philadelphia; its first volume was A Short Account of the Life of Anne Camm , a Minister of the Gospel, in the Society of Friends.