Quaker history and biography

This book outlines the long and at times surprisingly turbulent and moving story of the Reading Quaker Meeting.

Sarah Biller spent a turbulent childhood as the daughter of Alexander Kilham, Methodist rebel and founder of a breakaway church.

Though there have never been many Quakers, these small numbers belie the sect's tremendous impact, both historical and contemporary.

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.