Society of Friends

Late in life HB lived in a room behind the Peel meeting house in London, a place set aside for poor widows, and received an allowance of five shillings a week from that congregation...

The landlord, however, refused to take children, so Chavelita and at least one of her sisters spent some time staying with neighbours. These neighbours were Quakers , whose home, GE wrote many years later (in...

After her husband's death in 1921, KBG and her son Glen moved to a former mill cottage just outside Earby in Yorkshire. The cottage was discovered for her by a member of the Society of Friends

Thomas Fell's estate, Swarthmoor Hall in Lancashire, was MF 's home for most of her adult life, and has since become a shrine to the history of the Society of Friends .

DR , after another illness, resigned from her job in London and lived quietly for these years with a Quaker family on a Sussex fruit farm.

Charney Manor, at Charney Bassett, the village where JV grew up, is now (2016) a conference centre owned by the Society of Friends , which especially welcomes delegates involved in conflict resolution and international...

HG admired the English religious writer Isaac Watts . Much of her poetry and many of her prose essays have religious themes; several are commemorative in function. Her prose can be as imaginative as her...

This increasingly popular Quaker genre, an account of a precociously pious deathbed, was still regarded as fitting for a woman to write and publish, notwithstanding the general post-Restoration shift of opinion against women's raising their...

The diaries cover holidays, travel, her famine relief work in Russia (briefly excerpted in a pamphlet printed by the Friends Relief Committee), and in Britain the General Strike and civilian life during the Second World...

HC 's entire story (which takes place on a coach journey from London to the country) is narrated by a fifty-year-old childless widower. Beresford's book is debated, and raved over by a young officer and...

It opens in Derby on 4 December 1745 with a proclamation that the Young Pretender and his army are marching on the town. (Derby was in life this army's furthest point south.) All the prosperous...

MD expatiates on the internal Dictates of the Holy Spirit, or (with typographical emphasis not reproduced here) the Light which illuminates all Souls, as the Sun does Bodies, and in this Light thou shalt...

The Emotions of Martha is a religious novel, in that Martha Spence's spiritual and emotional development run side by side. At the outset she feels certain that she has a remarkable artistic talent (her subjects...

Carr's biscuits were a staple of British diet. The firm was started and run by one of the great Quaker trading families, a centre of progressive employment practices and local civic responsibility. Both family and...

She does not eschew politics on account of her readers' youth, but delivers an anti-war and anti-imperial message: The finest sight that could possibly be exhibited to me on earth, would be not a great...