Society of Friends

To sum up, PS's text gives the impression that she had a difficult man to deal with, and one who was not slow to use her gender as a weapon against her when he saw...

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...

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...

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...

AT is said to have spoken a series of doggerel verses, many of them directed against the Quakers , which an amanuensis took down from her lips.

AA contributed a testimony on her late first husband , and a letter to him, to the collaborative Quaker text The Memory of the Righteous Revived.

Docwra wrote to rebuke Bugg , who had written against her that April a tirade entitled Jezebel Withstood, and Her Daughter Anne Dockwra, Publickly Reprov'd. He incorporated this ad feminam attack in two works...

The two epigraphs inserted at the beginning of this final novel added an element of seriousness to the work: the first is from Aeschylus and the second from the seventeenth-century QuakerWilliam Penn . A...

DR 's first book, The Quakers Past and Present, was published; it reflects her admiration for the Quakers' affirmative perspective on life and their egalitarian attitudes towards women.

The obscure EH published her only known work, The Poor Widows [sic] Mite, a long poem written in justification of the Meetings of the Society of Friends , which is interesting for its distinctively female imagery.

On the same occasion Sarah Chevers wrote a similar letter to her husband and children, and both women wrote other letters addressed both to individuals and to groups of Friends with a capital F. They...

DR 's second book about the Quakers was published: an anthology derived from the writings of the movement's early leader, Gleanings from the Work of George Fox.

EM published in Life's Aftermath, A Story of Quiet Peoplea picture of Quaker manners describing tense scenes at the annual Quaker meetings in London in the years of her early childhood, when several Friends...