Society of Friends

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...

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

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.

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

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...

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

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

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.

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...

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...

Paula McDowell records this business decision, taken some years (or possibly only some weeks) after EB's death. Tace Sowle specifically mentioned for inclusion Bathurst's The Sayings of Women, 1683, which appears in the...

Others who contributed were Rebecca Travers (who wrote the opening pages under the title of the work as a whole), Sarah Ellis, Ann Martin, and Robert Whitrow, Joan's husband, who signed a...

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.

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.