Society of Friends

HG admired the English religious writer Isaac Watts . Much of her poetry and many of her prose essays have religious themes; several are commemorative in function. Her prose can be as imaginative as her...

Carr's biscuits were a staple of British diet. The firm was started and run by one of the great Quaker trading families, a centre of progressive employment practices and local civic responsibility. Both family and...

This offers another narrative of AT 's falling into a trance, uttering prophecies, and foiling attempts to interrupt her (this time by Quaker men) by singing over and through them. She presents herself as a...

These make up an important document in Quaker history. Though she begins her memoirs in formal, somewhat wordy style, CP tells a good story, particularly in the passages about her adventures in North America...

It argues (before such arguments had been put forward in America by Abigail Adams , Judith Sargent Murray , or Mercy Otis Warren , but drawing on beliefs current among Quakers since their mid-seventeenth-century origins)...

Although not prone to harping on God's vengeance, MF here calls the rival sect of the Rantersbeasts who, because of their libertinism, tend downwards into the earth instead of upwards to God.

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...

DR 's second book about the Quakers was published: an anthology derived from the writings of the movement's early leader, Gleanings from the Work of George Fox.

Comparatively little of AC 's philosophical correspondence has survived (that is, far more letters to her than from her are extant). This correspondence cover[ed] such topics as Quakerism , Familism, Behmen ism, Spinoza ...

MD , travelling in Devon, preached a sermon about the Inner Light; the manuscript, now in the library of Friends' House in London, is entitled May Drummond's Account of Conscience and Account of...

The year after her second marriage, AW (with thirty-six other women, including Rebecca Travers and Mary Elson ) signed For the King and both Houses of Parliament, a petition against the imprisonment of Friends

The obscure EH published her only known work, The Poor Widows [sic] Mite, a long poem written in justification of the Meetings of the Society of Friends , which is interesting for its distinctively female imagery.

EB published a spirited and theologically learned defence of Quaker beliefs and practices which she entitled Truth's Vindication.

EM published in Life's Aftermath, A Story of Quiet Peoplea picture of Quaker manners describing tense scenes at the annual Quaker meetings in London in the years of her early childhood, when several Friends...

ML continued her life-writing project with Biographical Notices of Members of the Society of Friends , who were Resident in Ireland.