Society of Friends

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...

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...

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...

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...

In about 1667-8 LH wrote notes from Calvin 's Institutes (planning a study of them), and recorded her opinions on theological topics like church governance, baptism (as child or adult), predestination, self-examination, perfectibility (which she...

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...

MM sent a poem in Latin to her husband , who was again in prison for their Quaker faith: this is one of many short poems that made part of her letters to him in...

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...

The publisher was said to have offered her a thousand pounds for this novel and had gone so far as to advertise it for sale. On 6 December AO wrote to Elizabeth Fry denying...

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.

Through the letters that she wrote from prison in 1652, and of which she kept archived copies, EH helped (together with Margaret Fell , who became keeping copies at the same time) to set what...

Comparatively little of AC 's philosophical correspondence has survived (that is, far more letters to her than from her are extant). This correspondence cover[ed] such topics as Quakerism , Familism, Behmen ism, Spinoza ...