Quaker history and biography

A humble tailor and apple-grower from New Jersey, John Woolman became one of the leading voices against the transatlantic slave trade in the eighteenth century.

Author Jennifer Kavanagh, shares her moments of discovery while addressing themes of Russia, Jewishness, motherhood, music, home, and language, as well as the vagaries of memory.

William Shewen was an early-convinced and prominent member of the Religious Society of Friends in London in the mid to late seventeenth century; he was also the author of a number of tracts and books.

William Drewett wrote his memoir in the 1890s, largely from the perspective of retirement. He recalls not only the changing ways of Quakers in his own life time, but also recounts stories passed down from his parents.

An anthology of George Fox. Selected and annotated by Rex Ambler.

This is a revised edition of the standard introduction to Quaker history.

Though Fox's own Journal tells his life-story fully and vividly, some readers find it so detailed, and so quick to assume his reader's familiarity with situations, events and outlooks of his time that it is difficult to read or grasp it as a whole.

Horace Alexander is best rememberd among Quakers for his work as a peacemaker. This book deals with his other major interest, the study of birds, in which he was already engaged as a teenager at the beginning of the 20th century.