Society of Friends

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

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 .

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

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...

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...

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 .

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...

As Iota, KC published A Quaker Grandmother, which Gail Cunningham calls an utterly innocuous little novel.

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...