Quaker history and biography

Best known as the longest-serving editor of The Friend, Henry Stanley Newman was a true Victorian: energetic, outward-looking and civic-minded.

Warner Mifflin - energetic, uncompromising, and reviled - was the key figure connecting the abolitionist movements before and after the American Revolution.

Ryan P. Jordan explores the limits of religious dissent in antebellum America, and reminds us of the difficulties facing reformers who tried peacefully to end slavery.

William Penn’s life was, at its core, a search for peace. This study concentrates attention on his greatest effort to secure true peace for all—his undertaking to populate and cultivate the region of North America granted him by the English Crown...

In this first scholarly biography of George Fox (1624-91), Ingle examines the fascinating life of the reformation leader and founding organizer of the Religious Society of Friends, more popularly known today as the Quakers.

Amelia opie's interesting life coud have been lived for the benefit of some future biographer. she was a best selling novelist, much in demand in the highest social circles a committed campaigner for the under privileged and anti slavery, a Quaker...

Elizabeth Heyrick fought fiercely for the rights of oppressed people. After a disastrous marriage, she became a prolific pamphleteer, a Quaker and one of the most outspoken anti-slavery campaigners of her time