Society of Friends
Connections
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Ann Kelty | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Maude Royden | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Catherine Phillips | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Hannah Griffitts | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Leadbeater | She prefaced these poems on religious and non-religious subjects with an account of the Quakers
. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Dorothy White | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Catherine Phillips | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth B. Lester | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Margaret Fell | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Margaret Fell | Its burden, like that of her letters to Cromwell, was an appeal for just government, and specifically for just treatment for Quaker
s. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Joan Vokins | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Caroline Frances Cornwallis | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Hooton | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Mollineux | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Joan Vokins | 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... |
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