Society of Friends

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...

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...

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

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...

EH 's petition argues that the impoverishment of charitable Quakers would ruin the kingdom.

Of a Sinful State, written the following year, shows that the young poet already understood the potential cost of belonging to the Society of Friends : she prays to bear / The World's Revilings...

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...

Here she justifies her financial dealings and defends herself against charges of having sought to evade the fines and imprisonment meted out to Quakers : the implication of these charges was that she and her...

The chief object of this text is to support the practice of separate Women's Meetings within the Quaker movement as a whole; it presents itself as refuting objections to the continuance of separate Women's and...

Her version of the happy man or choice of life trope unsurprisingly specifies health, work, a house securely owned, an equall Loyal Spouse, and a friend, as ingredients for worldly happiness. She then gives...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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 ...