Society of Friends

The volume is strong in local colour and nostalgia. The narrator practises a Quaker -like interior religion. In conclusion MAK quotes first from Addison 's The Vision of Mirza, then the final two lines...

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...

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 .

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...