Society of Friends

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...

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...

Having also been attacked as a woman, she defended herself as a woman. I never was so Light as to Dishonour my Husband, or Defile my Bed, she retorts. When she asserts that all she...

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...

The Burges children's father, though he is against Pusey ism, is broad-minded about Puseyites as he is in other respects: visitors to their house include not only Anglicans but Moravians , a Baptist ...

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...

Each writer distinguishes sharply between the way Quaker s live in love, employing ministers chosen by God, and the way Anglican s and others live in the world, under ministers chosen by man. MF writes...

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...

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...

Its burden, like that of her letters to Cromwell, was an appeal for just government, and specifically for just treatment for Quaker s.

She celebrates Friends as the Sons and Daughters of the Lord, justifies their religious choice, and calls on their Anglican persecutors to repent, threatening them with hellfire forever if they do not.

The letters in Christian Sects (which is headed by three quotations, one of them from St John's Gospel) are said to have been exchanged between one of the editors of the Small Books, and...

This work is prefaced by testimonies including one by Theophila Townsend . Her account of her ministry tells of physical suffering andurance: as JV wrote not long before she died, how many hundred Miles have...

Money issues arise early in this story. Mr Mead was curate to a small parish in Lincolnshire, and performed the whole duty within eight miles round, for the noble salary of thirty-five pounds a...

The title sequence is important in the volume. Other topics include the poet's mother, the Quaker pacifist George Fox , and the theme of the woman writer's particular struggles, for which UAF employs Virginia Woolf