Quaker women
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 133 Collections and/or Records:
Martha L. Deed Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-285
Overview
Martha Deed is a retired Quaker psychologist who wrote her 1969 PhD dissertation on patterns of religious commitment among Friends. She is a prolific writer, poet, and photographer whose beliefs inform her life and work. This collection includes papers and research materials in two areas, her dissertation and her edited publication, Fritz Kunkel - The Psychology of the Whole Man.
Dates:
1942-1999
Elfreth family commonplace books
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-03-010
Overview
This collection is comprised of five volumes of the commonplace books of various members of the Elfreth family, including Rebecca P. Elfreth, Jacob R. Elfreth Sr., Jacob R. Elfreth Jr,. and Jane P. Elfreth. The volumes include poetry, extracts, pressed leaves and flowers, and clippings of illustrations.
Dates:
1820-1853
Margaret Ellis memoir
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-109
Overview
Margaret Ellis's memoir begins with an account of Ellis's convincement (conversion to Quakerism) at the age of 14, her experiences in the Society of Friends, her experiences as a minister, and her travels as a minister in England from Philadelphia with her friend Margaret Lewis.
Dates:
1739-1752
Elizabeth Reeve Evans diaries
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-024
Overview
Diary entries describe social calls, the health of family and friends, the weather, Quaker meetings, and births, deaths, and marriages within the Quaker community.
Dates:
1882-1899
"A Memorable instance of Divine guidance and protection"
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-029
Overview
The manuscript of "A Memorable instance of Divine guidence and protection," as told to Sarah Taylor by Jane Fearon and James Dickinson, two Quaker ministers, tells the story of Fearon and Dickinson's experience when on a religious visit to Scotland circa 1680.
Dates:
Undated.
Female Anti-Slavery Sewing Society records
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-09-010
Scope and Contents
The collection includes one book from 1852 - 1854 which begins with the mission of the society, and otherwise includes informal minutes, listings for material and financial donations given by memberships, and the number of people at each meeting. The back pages include lists of monetary donations made to constituent members for the same years.
Dates:
1852-1854
Mary Flowers commonplace book
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-03-013
Overview
The commonplace book of Mary Flowers includes copied letters, the account of the convincement (conversion to Quakerism) of Jane Hoskins, elegies, testimonies, extracts of meeting minutes left by Thomas Brown, and extracts from speeches.
Dates:
1757-1761
Susan Foulke diary
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-026
Overview
Susan Foulke was an Orthodox Quaker and a member of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Entries detail Susan’s daily life and include prayers, religious reflection, descriptions of visits to friends and family in Philadelphia and Burlington, New Jersey, and births, deaths, and marriages within her family and the Quaker community.
Dates:
1814-1840
Friendly Woman Records
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-087
Overview
This collection contains papers related to the publication of the Quaker periodical, Friendly Woman. Friendly Woman is a quarterly journal focusing on Quaker women's concerns and experiences. The periodical contains essays, fiction, poetry, commentary, and art.
Dates:
1987-[ongoing]
Elizabeth A.W. Furnas Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-283
Overview
Elizabeth A.W. (Betty) Furnas was an active member of the Society of Friends who served as a member of the Board of Pendle Hill and was a member of the Women's Problems Group of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and its sucessor, Philadelphia Quaker Women. The collection includes minutes and correspondence, particularly of the latter, as well as published and unpublished writings and other material.
Dates:
1928-1967
