\u27You Have Lost Your Opportunity\u27 British Quakers and the Militant Phase of the Women\u27s Suffrage Campaign: 1906-1914

Quakers are widely believed to have been in the forefront of 19th century social change, and in particular to have been in favour of women\u27s equality. Through consideration of individual and corporate public statements by British Friends during the period of militant campaigning for women to have the parliamentary vote, I show that this perception is inaccurate, largely mythic, and based on generalisation from the actions of a small number of individual Friends. I suggest that Friends\u27 reputation for having been corporately progressive on the question of women\u27s equality is undeserved, based on superficial consideration of the use of the term \u27equality\u27, and that the position of the London Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends was far more cautious and divided than is generally supposed

Reading a Quaker\u27s Book: Elizabeth Ashbridge\u27s Testimony of Quaker Literary Theory

Elizabeth Ash bridge offers one of the most striking transatlantic spiritual autobiographies of the eighteenth century. While historians and scholars alike have given careful attention to this now-canonical text, no one to date has yet positioned this narrative in the context of the transatlantic Friends\u27 unique literary traditions. Turning to the first generation of Friends, who also cal led themselves \u27The Publishers of Truth\u27 , this essay explores the Quakers\u27 mystical relationship to language, prophecy and writing, and their subsequent creation of a New Word. I trace how the Friends created their own literary theory, locating the written word as the site of divine opening. They consequently created a religious print culture, perceiving their literature as a spiritual and political force which had the power to convince, to heal, and to usher in the apocalyptic world. Elizabeth Ashbridge\u27s spiritual autobiography upholds and reflects this tradition in the eighteenth century: framed around her pivotal moment of reading a Quakers\u27 Book, hers is ultimately a text about spiritual literacy and the act of reading - the sacred act which transforms lives. Placing her work in relation to other Quaker women diarists, Spiritual Mothers and Traveling Ministers, I consider how Ashbridge\u27s narrative represents the transatlantic religious reading culture among Friends which intentionally fostered and influenced succeeding generations of readers and writers

The Crescent Student Newspaper, May 9, 1977

Student newspaper of Pacific College (later George Fox University). 8 pages, black and white.https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/the_crescent/1942/thumbnail.jp

The Crescent Student Newspaper, November 24, 1947

Student newspaper of Pacific College (later George Fox University). 4 pages, black and white.https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/the_crescent/1926/thumbnail.jp

The Crescent Student Newspaper, November 21, 1939

Student newspaper of Pacific College (later George Fox University). 4 pages, black and white.https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/the_crescent/1922/thumbnail.jp

The Crescent Student Newspaper, November 3, 1980

Student newspaper of Pacific College (later George Fox University). 12 pages, black and white.https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/the_crescent/1975/thumbnail.jp

The Crescent Student Newspaper, November 7, 2007

Student newspaper of George Fox University.https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/the_crescent/2307/thumbnail.jp