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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.
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.).
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 ...
2.1 17th Century or 1600s. 2.2 18th Century or 1700s. 2.3 19th Century or 1800s. ... Quaker women were encouraged to record their sufferings in the face of their faith.
Fell's account book showed the expenditures for her family and the Swarthmore Minutes (SWMM), which reflected the Quaker philanthropic thoughts and practices. [2] In this century, women were very much involved in their husbands' business affairs; as a result, account books kept by women also had detailed information of their husbands' income.
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.
On 11 July 1656 they became the first Quakers to visit the English North American colonies, arriving at Boston in the Massachusetts Bay Colony on the Swallow. There they met with fierce hostility from the Puritan population and the Deputy Governor of the colony, Richard Bellingham , as news of the heretical views of the Quakers had preceded them.