Society of Friends

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...

She prefaced these poems on religious and non-religious subjects with an account of the Quakers .

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. It defines this faith in opposition to wrong faiths (probably...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...