Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Mary Fisher
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Standard Name: Fisher, Mary
Birth Name: Mary Fisher
Married Name: Mary Bayley
Married Name: Mary Cross
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to undertake preaching journeys abroad), remained unpublished except for some strongly politicized letters and a one-sixth share in a hard-hitting pamphlet attack on the Established Church. She is best remembered for a text which was probably never written down: her personal address to Mehmet IV
, Sultan or Grand Signior.
HB
travelled with the more famous Mary Fisher
to preach in Newfoundland—the only Quakers
of their period to go there.
Rickman, Lydia L. “Esther Biddle and Her Mission to Louis XIV”. Friends Historical Society Journal, Vol.
47
, pp. 38-45.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Sara Maitland
This genre seems almost impossible in the late twentieth century, but the authors believe that saints today are potentially spiritual resources whose presences through the traces they have left behind in the minds of the...
Textual Production
Rebecca Travers
In 1677 RT
contributed a preface to Joan Whitrow
's The Work of God in a Dying Maid, about the pious death of Whitrow's daughter Susannah
. This testimony took its place alongside others...
Textual Features
Sophia Hume
This first publication clearly shows how the climate of opinion had changed since the days of seventeenth-century Quaker pamphleteers like SH
's grandmother Mary Fisher
: Hume supposes that a Woman's appearing on the Behalf...
Material Conditions of Writing
Elizabeth Hooton
False Prophets and False Teachers Described was printed at London, bearing the authorial names of six Quakers
including EH
, Mary Fisher
, and Thomas Aldam
, all imprisoned in York Castle.
Hooton's...
Friends, Associates
Hester Biddle
On the way she encountered Mary Fisher
(whom she already knew well as a travelling companion) and the close associates Katharine Evans
and Sarah Cheevers or Chevers
.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Family and Intimate relationships
Sophia Hume
Despite SH
's reticence on the subject, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography believes that the example of her famous grandmother Mary Fisher
(c. 1623-98), prophet and missionary, who had travelled across Europe on foot...
Family and Intimate relationships
Sophia Hume
SH
's mother, Susanna Wigington
, was a daughter of the famous Quaker Mary Fisher
and her husband William Bayly
. (Fisher had moved to Charleston, SC, after her second marriage.)
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
All that Sophia says...
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Texts
Aldam, Thomas et al. False Prophets and False Teachers Described. 1653.