Society of Friends

KE grew up an Anglican , but was clearly a religious seeker, since she joined the Baptists , then the Independents , before becoming one of the Society of Friends very soon after its inception...

KE 's husband was John Evans, a wealthy man from the area of Bath. Writing to him from a foreign prison after a separation of more than two years she calls him my right...

Her extensive travel during the 1650s (through all the component parts of Britain) was undertaken in the course of witnessing to her Quaker faith. Her ministry extended to distant parts of Britain and later overseas.

Among other warm relationships she formed with fellow members of the Society of Friends , the most important was with Sarah Chevers or Cheevers , with whom she shared voyages and persecution. Chevers, about ten...

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

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.

MF says that she personally travelled two hundred miles to deliver into the king 's own hand one of her Restoration tracts, A Declaration and an Information from us the People of God called Quakers

This tract opens in hard-hitting style: We who are the People of God called Quakers , who are hated and despised, and every where spoken against, as people not fit to live. . ....

MF and her family were converted to Quakerism by George Fox .

In this tract MF argues against the increasing emphasis on a specialised Quaker dress, grey in colour. She writes that young Friends . . . can soon get into an outward Garb, to be all...

MF set to work to establish the Kendal Fund to help support travelling Quaker ministers and their families; she enlisted the help of locals George Taylor or Tayler and Thomas Willan .

MF , on her first visit to London, presented the earliest formal Quaker peace testimony to Charles II , whom she went on to visit several times more.

Arrested in her turn at Holker, MF was imprisoned in Lancaster Castle for her Quaker activism.

MF addressed the restored monarch boldly and directly in a number of works; she was the first to explain to him the non-violent nature of Quakerism .