Society of Friends

Later she reports in detail a conversation with a negro informant about slavery: he was, she says, well-fed and well-clad, but he reported cruelty although he was not himself a victim of it. She laments...

The letter pulls no punches, enumerating the causes for the bad state of the Society of Friends in Virginia, which the writers say has given them much pain. They anatomise the exceedingly low state...

She also travelled on a missionary journey to Holland with her fellow-QuakerCatherine Payton (later Phillips) ; they set out on 21 July 1757.

CB also had a confrontation with George Henry Lewes . She attended the House of Commons , the Chapel Royal , where she saw her hero the Duke of Wellington , and a meeting of...

MF , now a Quaker missionary to foreign parts, landed in the West Indies (that is Barbados) in time for news of her arrival to reach England on 15 October.

From BarbadosMF arrived by sea at Boston, Massachusetts, with Anne Austin , the first Quakers to proselytise there.

MP , on a journey of Quaker ministry with her friend Catherine Payton (later Phillips) , travelled nearly nine thousand miles to and around North America.

The year after her hostile reception in Boston, Massachusetts, MF left England again with a small group of other Quakers , apparently in the beginning headed for Jerusalem.

ES , with Ruth Fry and Fred Brennan , set out as members of a Quaker relief mission to visit famine areas of Russia (the Volga valley), and report both on the genuineness of...

EH took to spending her summers in the countryside outside Leicester, living solely on potatoes in a shepherd's cottage with a view to experiencing the lifestyle of subsistence labourers in Ireland. While in London...

Back in the USA she passed the money she had raised to a Quaker organization, but suggested that the unsettled political situation in the South made it a poor time for building.

ES , who had visited Donegal in 1903, had loved it and learned a great deal about folk-dancing and songs, took her first postwar holiday in Ireland in July 1919. On 5 January...

HB travelled with the more famous Mary Fisher to preach in Newfoundland—the only Quakers of their period to go there.

Mary Shackleton (later ML ) visited London with her father , who was going to attend the annual Quaker meeting there.

Punishments laid down in 1657 for members of the Society of Friends daring to come to Massachusetts consisted of physical violence: whippings, cropped ears, and tongues bored with a hot iron.