May Drummond

01 January 1710 - 28 February 1777

Standard Name: Drummond, May

MD acquired huge fame (both celebration and opprobrium) as a Quaker minister and preacher beginning in the 1730s. She published only one identified slim volume of exhortatory letters and a pamphlet.

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September 1753

George Drummond , Provost of Edinburgh (and brother of the Quaker preacher and writer May Drummond ), laid the foundation stone of the new Royal Exchange there.

Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

under George Drummond; May Drummond

By March 1767

There was published in LondonThe Female American; or, The Adventures of Unca Elizabeth Winkfield, whose mixed-race heroine recounts her life story.

London, April. Women and Property in the Eighteenth-Century Novel. Cambridge University Press, 1999.

97ff

Winkfield, Unca Eliza. The Female American; or, The Adventures of Unca Eliza Winkfield. Editor Burnham, Michelle, Broadview, 2001.

10-11, 192

Reilly, Matthew. “The Life and Literary Fictions of May Drummond, Quaker Female Preacher”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.

, No. 2, Nov. 2015, pp. 287-12.

307

Texts

Drummond, May. Internal Revelation the Source of Saving Knowledge. 1736.

Drummond, May. To the Meeting assembled in the Chamber at Gracechurch-street. 1766.