MD
's second brother, Alexander
, must be the one who was said to be the only member of her family not to oppose her becoming a Quaker preacher.
Story, Thomas. The Life of Thomas Story. Isaac Thompson, 1747.
714
Alexander set off in May...
Wealth and Poverty
May Drummond
Back in Scotland in the later 1750s, she was alleged by hostile rumour to have become a drunkard, and so poor that she stooped to pilfering food from the houses of Friends whom she visited...
Timeline
By March 1767: There was published in London The Female...
Writing climate item
By March 1767
There was published in LondonThe Female American; or, The Adventures of Unca Elizabeth Winkfield, whose mixed-race heroine recounts her life story.
London, April. Women and Property in the Eighteenth-Century Novel. Cambridge University Press, 1999.
97ff
Winkfield, Unca Eliza. The Female American; or, The Adventures of Unca Eliza Winkfield. Editor Burnham, Michelle, Broadview, 2001.
10-11, 192
Reilly, Matthew. “The Life and Literary Fictions of May Drummond, Quaker Female Preacher”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.
28
, No. 2, Nov. 2015, pp. 287-12.
307
Texts
Drummond, Alexander. Information for Alexander Drummond. 1768.
