Bailey, Rosemarie. “Temperamental Outsider”. The Ship, Vol.
66
, pp. 67-8. 68
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | U. A. Fanthorpe | The title sequence is important in the volume. Bailey, Rosemarie. “Temperamental Outsider”. The Ship, Vol. 66 , pp. 67-8. 68 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Hincks | EH
's short introductory poem, The Widows Suite, seeking approval from a friend named T. S., exemplifies her somewhat tortured inversions of natural word-order: Moreover I not willing am / that Truth at all... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Margaret Fell | This tract opens in hard-hitting style: We who are the People of God called Quakers
, who are hated and despised, and every where spoken against, as people not fit to live. . .... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Doreen Wallace | DW
writes that she has a grievance, since she herself is experiencing oppression over tithes. She makes no claim to omniscience, broad-mindedness, or even good temper. But she is inspired by the courage and conviction... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Dorothy White | She writes here as a millenarian, who expects the conversion of the Jews and the Second Coming of Christ. She opposes the bureaucratization of the Quaker movement
. Prophets, she says, have no regard to... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Margaret Fell | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Catherine Phillips | Many of the reasons cited by CP
against the Methodists were true, too, of the Anglicans: too many forms and ceremonies, use of vestments, of the communion service, of baptism by sprinkling infants. Missionaries, she... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Celia Fiennes | CF
is interested less in appearances than how things work. On her first journey she made this observation of the spire of Salisbury Cathedral: being so high it appeares to us below as sharpe... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rebecca Travers | The extremely long descriptive title promises that the Quaker
faith is the same believed by the holy men and women that gave forth the Scriptures. English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Bathurst | The book opens with several stages of preliminary matter. In an opening epistle to five individual Friends, EB
says she has not acted out of ambition to be printed or to be popular, but in... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rebecca Travers | This tract uses verse as well as prose. A threat is embodied in its title (which is again long, though not so long as that of her previous work): things to come are here declared... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Catherine Phillips | Later she reports in detail a conversation with a negro informant about slavery: he was, she says, well-fed and well-clad, but he reported cruelty although he was not himself a victim of it. She laments... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Peisley | The letter pulls no punches, enumerating the causes for the bad state of the Society of Friends
in Virginia, which the writers say has given them much pain. They anatomise the exceedingly low state... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Ann Kelty | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Hannah Griffitts | Her sharp critical mind is also reflected in poems of political tenour. She wrote an Ode on the late Peace (of Paris, signed on 10 February 1763), an epitaph on Britannia (personification of the colonial... |
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