Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Sarah Chevers
Standard Name: Chevers, Sarah
Connections
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Cultural formation | Katharine Evans | Since she married a wealthy man, she was probably born into a fairly comfortable rank of society. Scholars have speculated whether her relationship with Sarah Chevers
, formed under conditions that threatened the lives and... |
Friends, Associates | Katharine Evans | 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... |
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
. |
Material Conditions of Writing | Katharine Evans | KE
's and Sarah Chevers
's account of their imprisonment in Malta was published in London by their colleague Daniel Baker
while the authors were still in prison, as This is a Short Relation of... |
Author summary | Katharine Evans | |
Textual Features | Katharine Evans | This includes A Vision related by Sarah Chevers
. |
Textual Production | Katharine Evans | On the same occasion Sarah Chevers
wrote a similar letter to her husband and children, and both women wrote other letters addressed both to individuals and to groups of Friends
with a capital F. They... |
Textual Production | Katharine Evans | An expanded version of KE
's and Sarah Chevers
's text This is a Short Relation of some of the Cruel Sufferings appeared after their release as A True Account of the Great Tryals and Cruel Sufferings. 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, 1990. English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/. |
Travel | Katharine Evans | Her whereabouts can be largely tracked by her jail sentences. She was arrested at Rochester in Kent on 6 September 1663, but was off before the end of that year, with Chevers
, to Scotland... |
Travel | Katharine Evans | With her friend Sarah Chevers
, KE
left her husband and children to travel to the East as a Quaker missionary; the two women were following in the footsteps of Saint Paul
by heading for... |
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Texts
Evans, Katharine et al. A True Account of the Great Tryals and Cruel Sufferings. Editor Baker, Daniel, Robert Wilson, 1663.
Evans, Katharine, and Sarah Chevers. This is a Short Relation of some of the Cruel Sufferings. Robert Wilson, 1662.