Society of Friends

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...

SH edited an anthology of Quaker writings: Extracts from Divers Ancient Testimonies of Friends and Others.

MD , travelling in Devon, preached a sermon about the Inner Light; the manuscript, now in the library of Friends' House in London, is entitled May Drummond's Account of Conscience and Account of...

ML continued her life-writing project with Biographical Notices of Members of the Society of Friends , who were Resident in Ireland.

The year after her second marriage, AW (with thirty-six other women, including Rebecca Travers and Mary Elson ) signed For the King and both Houses of Parliament, a petition against the imprisonment of Friends

MAK apparently published this year, with her name, Memoirs of the Lives and Persecutions of the Primitive Quakers Exemplifying the Obedience of Faith in Some of the Early Members of the Society; a second...

EB published a spirited and theologically learned defence of Quaker beliefs and practices which she entitled Truth's Vindication.

Quaker minister William Simpson , who had died in Barbados on 8 December 1670, was commemorated in A Short Relation of his life and death, including a testimony by EH .

MP 's surviving letters in general concern themselves with practical and ideological issues in the Society of Friends . She strongly supports the practice of separate women's meetings.

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...

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...

She spelled her name Rebecka on the former of these, but in its more conventional form on the other. The former title continues: Of That Eternal Breath begotten and brought forth not of flesh &...

MP 's manuscripts survive at Friends House in London (headquarters of the Society of Friends ) and in other Quaker archives. A body of critical work is accumulating around her, and her writing is now...

MF addressed the restored monarch boldly and directly in a number of works; she was the first to explain to him the non-violent nature of Quakerism .

The first-named is George I 's rejected queen (accused of adultery and imprisoned for life before her husband came to the English throne, while her alleged lover was assassinated). The protagonist of the second novel...