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MM , a Quaker of the later seventeenth century, wrote in prose and poetry all her life. Her surviving prose consists of religious meditations and letters; her poetry, also centred on God and her faith...

Written expression in connection with her religious life was vital to MP from her childhood. She wrote prayers and letters, and began amassing by stages a series of autobiographical writings in the Quaker tradition. She...

ES was one of the best-known Quaker pamphleteers and religious autobiographers of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century. She was also known in her own localities as an outstanding preacher.

JW , a Quaker and later an Independent pamphleteer in the post-Restoration period of reaction, is remarkable both for the family politics and religious feeling of her account of the deaths of two of her...

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...

Subscribers included Wordsworth , Southey , and De Quincey , all of them writers living in the area. Commentator Jonathan Wordsworth suggests that the subscription list, which clearly took careful fund-raising work, may have been...

BB (future autobiographer) wrote and delivered a political letter to James II protesting about the treatment of Quakers .

LSB probably first reached print with two sonnets in the Quaker periodical the Friends' Quarterly Examiner, titled Sonnet and A Double Sonnet. She may have added a third sonnet in the same journal...

CP wrote at Redruth, Cornwall, An Epistle to Friends in Ireland, which was published that year at Dublin.

This text was highly topical. Manasseh ben Israel had arrived in England the previous October to negotiate with Cromwell over the return of the Jews to England, which had been legislated in December. MF asked...

MF says that she personally travelled two hundred miles to deliver into the king 's own hand one of her Restoration tracts, A Declaration and an Information from us the People of God called Quakers

In the twentieth century, MK re-focused her talents on non-fiction [and] sociological investigations with members of the Rowntree family. She first worked with John Wilhelm Rowntree on a series of powerful essays in his York...

The Friends Library began publication in Philadelphia; its first volume was A Short Account of the Life of Anne Camm , a Minister of the Gospel, in the Society of Friends.

Her proselytising effort was courteously received. The Sultan apparently recognised and acknowledged the spiritual truth in MF 's speech. It also brought her an enduring fame, chiefly within the bounds of her own Quaker faith.