Anne Whitehead

AW petitioned with other women for the release of Friends imprisoned for their beliefs. Ten years later, at a time of declining radicalism in the Quaker sect on matters of gender, she wrote the larger part of a collaborative text calling for the setting up of Women's Meetings. This seems like a dogged attempt to preserve a distinctively female power base within the Quaker movement by defining women's concerns as chiefly domestic and educational.