Historical Quakers
& Quaker Writings

• The Quaker Writings Homepage This page, maintained by Peter Sippel, was started in August of 1996 with the goal of making Christian Quaker material available on the Internet.
• Writings of Historical Friends
• Writings of (or about) Contemporaneous Friends
• Meeting the Spirit --An Introduction To Quaker Beliefs And Practices
• Quaker Electronic Archive & Meeting Place
• Barclays' Apology Barclay's Apology for the True Christian Divinity, which presents and develops these theses, was published in 1675 during the first half-century of the Quaker movement. George Amoss, Jr. published this fine online resource.
• Journal of John Woolman
• John Woolman's "A Plea for the Poor" (Part X)
• George Fox's Journal
• George Fox Autobiography
• Letter to the Governor of Barbadoes
• Quaker Periodicals
• Quaker Poetry
• Arthur O. Roberts Poem "When I am very old" Messengers of God, Barclay Press, 1996
• Elizabeth Fry (1780-1845 became famous for her work to reform the prison system in Britain in the early nineteenth century
• Mary Dyer Quaker martyr
• Women's Speaking - Margaret Fell a tract to show that the ministry of women was "Justified, Proved, and Allowed of by the Scriptures." After the death of her first husband, she married George Fox
• Sarah Grimké, Angelina Grimké 1792-1873, 1805-1879 American abolitionists and social activists who converted to Quakerism

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