William Penn

At Worminghurst in Sussex (a house belonging to her son-in-law William Penn which was probably a gift from herself), MP had a delightful dream of glorious heavenly forms.

RT died in London at nearly eighty. William Penn preached her funeral sermon.

MP 's daughter Gulielma became the first wife of the well-known Quaker William Penn .

She was not in London when George Fox , her second husband, died there on 13 January 1691.William Penn was chosen to break news to her.

AC corresponded with and was visited by many leading members of the Society of Friends , among them Keith , Robert Barclay , Anne and George Whitehead , Isaac Penington , William Penn , and...

A number of early Quakers became lifelong friends and fellow-workers with MF . She met James Naylor or Nayler and Richard Farnsworth not long after she met George Fox . She also enjoyed a...

She found this story in a recent issue of the American Museum, where it was set in Canada. Her title-page quotes from Spenser 's The Faerie Queene: Fierce Wars and faithful Loves...

Bugg continued his attacks in William Penn , the Pretended Quaker . . . To which is Added, A Winding-Sheet for Anne Dockwra, 1700, and A Seasonable Caveat against the Prevalency of Quakerism...

She said the house's little faĉade was perfect, and the rocks were real, large, and primeval. It had once belonged to Guglielma Penn , wife of the famous Quaker William Penn and daughter (though Wellesley...

This book provides a historical account showing how the League ideal developed from the Amphictyonic League in ancient Greece, through the conceptions of William Penn , the Abbé St Pierre , Immanuel Kant , and Tsar Nicholas II .

A couple of years after her return from America, CS set a novel there: The Unholy Experiment, which draws on but radically alters some of her own experience. She dedicated it to her...

The two epigraphs inserted at the beginning of this final novel added an element of seriousness to the work: the first is from Aeschylus and the second from the seventeenth-century QuakerWilliam Penn . A...

DNL published during her lifetime, as a contributor to the National Gazette. She did research into family history and edited (though she did not herself publish) a collection of the letters between James Logan

MF (no doubt already a letter-writer, as were most women of her class) first wrote to George Fox in 1652, the year of her conversion. Her correspondence with both him and William Penn

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...