William Miller
sent MD
a letter on behalf of the Edinburgh Meeting of the Society of Friends
which constructively dismissed her from the Society.
Reilly, Matthew. “The Life and Literary Fictions of May Drummond, Quaker Female Preacher”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.
28
, No. 2, Nov. 2015, pp. 287-12.
309-10
Cultural formation
May Drummond
In 1759 MD
sought official permission from the Society of Friends
to travel to America and preach there. Permission was denied by William Miller
of Edinburgh, and this seems to have precipitated a movement by...