Society 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...

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 .

DR 's first book, The Quakers Past and Present, was published; it reflects her admiration for the Quakers' affirmative perspective on life and their egalitarian attitudes towards women.

Comparatively little of AC 's philosophical correspondence has survived (that is, far more letters to her than from her are extant). This correspondence cover[ed] such topics as Quakerism , Familism, Behmen ism, Spinoza ...

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...

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...

DR 's second book about the Quakers was published: an anthology derived from the writings of the movement's early leader, Gleanings from the Work of George Fox.

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...

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 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...

Both these novels feature French and Latin tags in their text, but lack epigraphs at the head of chapters. The Quakers, which Garside calls Opie -esque, is written in a confident, literary style and...

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. . ....

This was Tremain's longest novel so far, and her first use in full-length fiction of the seventeenth century, which had featured in several of her stories. Her protagonist-narrator, Robert Merivel, is a man of expensive...

The editor's own poems in this volume deal mainly with her family and her Quaker beliefs.