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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...

MF composed her latest known work, An Epistle to Friends, urging the Society not to isolate themselves from society by adopting the distinctive dress with which they nevertheless proceeded to identify themselves.

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

DW broke a twenty-year silence with several appeals to Quakers not to tone down their radicalism, including A Salutation of Love to all the Tender-Hearted, Universal Love to the Lost, and The Day...

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...

Equiano presumably had a hand in composing an address to London Quakers from Africans living in the city, which he and others presented in October 1785. The address thanks Quaker Gentlemen for the publication of...

As a well-known public speaker and advocate for many causes, LOC contributed articles on a number of other topical concerns. In The Heart of Armenia, for example, she recounts her journey across Bulgaria to...

In The Harlot's Vail Rent, which appeared during the same year, RT again reproved Elizabeth Atkinson for leaving the Society of Friends and switching to the opposite side in printed controversy.

While on her missionary trip to America, MP wrote, jointly with Catherine Phillips and several others, an epistle addressed to a meeting of Friends : To the Yearly Meeting to be held at Curles for...

As in her later novel Kith and Kin, JF draws on her Quaker heritage, and her underlying distrust of luxury and material comfort, for a sympathetic portrayal of nineteenth-century Quaker life. Inspired by the...

BB relates her conversion to Quakerism back in the 1650s, and its consequences for just the first three years of her ministry. First come the adverse results of being a Friend: the resultant collapse of...

MM situates her letter, like other early ones to Frances, in the context of her desire for her cousin's Temporal and Eternal Welfare, that is, her conversion to the Society of Friends . This...

The book opens with a chapter called The Universal Subordination of Women, which sets out MR 's contention that sexual inequality has been fundamental to the great civilisations known to history. A candid study...