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A female Quaker preaches at a meeting in London in the 18th century. Quaker views on women have always been considered progressive in their own time (beginning in the 17th century), and in the late 19th century this tendency bore fruit in the prominence of Quaker women in the American women's rights movement.
Quaker marriages were exceptional for the 17th century in viewing spouses as "spiritual equals" and allowing each marriage partner to explore and advocate his or her own faiths. [ 11 ] The religious dedication exhibited by Cheevers and Evans was not entirely unusual for women of the 17th century.
She is said to have been the most prolific female Quaker pamphleteer of the 17th century, contributing twenty texts. [ 9 ] Some authors have speculated that Dorothy White married John Fincham (died 1711), a rich Norfolk Quaker, but the Dorothy White who became his bride on 12 March 1681 came from Thetford , while the pamphleteer Dorothy White ...
Margaret Fell, Women's Speaking Justified and Other Pamphlets. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Gill, Catie, Women in the Seventeenth-Century Quaker Community: A Literary Study of Political Identities, 1650–1700, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. Ross, Isabel (1984). Margaret Fell Mother of Quakerism (2nd ed.).
Sarah Blackborow (fl. 1650s – 1660s) was the English author of religious tracts, which strongly influenced Quaker thinking on social problems and the theological position of women. She was one of several prominent female activists in the early decades of the Society of Friends, notable also for originating a scheme to distribute aid to London ...
Because Elizabeth and her family were Quakers, they refused to take refuge in the garrison when the Abenaki first attacked their area during Dummer's War. [5] Elizabeth and four of her children, Sarah, Elizabeth Jr, Daniel, and her two-week-old daughter, were taken from her home in Dover, New Hampshire on August 27, 1724.
Early Quaker women missionaries included Sarah Cheevers and Katharine Evans. Others active in proselytising included Mary Penington, Mary Mollineux and Barbara Blaugdone. [80] Quaker women published at least 220 texts during the 17th century. [81] However, some Quakers resented the power of women in the community.
A theme of Payton's approach was her advocacy of an even greater role for women within Quakerism. She wanted the church to change its structures to allow this. [1] At an annual London meeting, she, Mary Peisley and four others proposed that a separate women's group should be formed within the Quakers. This was accepted, but not until 1784. [1]