Society of Friends

From BarbadosMF arrived by sea at Boston, Massachusetts, with Anne Austin , the first Quakers to proselytise there.

The year after her hostile reception in Boston, Massachusetts, MF left England again with a small group of other Quakers , apparently in the beginning headed for Jerusalem.

MF (who had once answered a magistrate enquiring her husband's name that she had no husband but Jesus Christ) married another notable Quaker spokesman, a ship's captain by trade, William Bayly .

MF , newly returned to England from Barbados, wrote a letter of encouragement and exhortation to Barbados Friends .

MF , one of the Valiant Sixty (that is, the earliest Quakers or members of the Society of Friends to undertake preaching journeys abroad), remained unpublished except for some strongly politicized letters and a one-sixth...

It is not known whether she belonged to the Church of England or some other sect before she joined the Society of Friends (in earlier 1652, along with her employers). Her early conversion to...

Before she embarked on the Quaker activism that made her famous, MF worked as a servant to a couple named Tomlinson (Richard and Elizabeth) who lived at Selby in Yorkshire. As a Quaker minister...

In Boston the two women at once fell under suspicion of being witches. They were searched for bodily marks of witchcraft (even betwixt their toes, and amongst their hair), then thrown into jail. Their...

She was brought up in Leeds in an English, radical Quaker family with Liberal politics who were committed to humanitarian pursuits. The family was of prosperous middle-class standing, but IOF was brought up with a...

The Ford family did not conform to the stricter rules of the Quaker denomination, and Isabella and her siblings were allowed to dance, paint, play instruments, and sing. The children also developed strong senses of...

IOF 's father, Robert Lawson Ford , was a solicitor and landowner, and a Quaker who belonged to the radical wing of the Liberal Party . He supported local Quaker MP John Bright in his...

When England declared war on Germany in August 1914, IOF , whose pacificism was ingrained from her Quaker upbringing, turned her focus to advocating for peace.

Carr's biscuits were a staple of British diet. The firm was started and run by one of the great Quaker trading families, a centre of progressive employment practices and local civic responsibility. Both family and...

This book differs from Foster's first two novels, in that it is shorter (two volumes instead of three or four), not historical but rather a sentimental novel about courtship, and originally published by Minerva as...

JF 's father, a former Quaker , was cast out by the Society of Friends when he married an Anglican wife.