Quakeresses

Women were permitted to preach, according to St. Paul, and they were forbidden according to the same St. Paul: the Quakeresses preach by virtue of the first permission.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

She was a very neat-looking old lady, with a kerchief crossed on her breast in the style of the old-fashioned Quakeresses.

Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret Alice B. Emerson

Eleven Quakeresses and one clergyman's wife were then banded together.

Elizabeth Fry Mrs. E. R. Pitman

The young Quakeresses picked up ideas and models for their artistic handicraft from the most unlikely sources.

Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century George Paston

Out of twelve ladies forming the original association started in 1817, eleven were Quakeresses.

Elizabeth Fry Mrs. E. R. Pitman

The young Quakeresses picked up ideas and models for their artistic handicraft from the most unlikely sources.

Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century Paston, George, d. 1936 1902

_Fraser and Warren_, why the wives of the wealthier clergy, for example, and a number of Quakeresses would withdraw their affairs from the firm's management.

Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement Harry Hamilton Johnston 1892

Eleven Quakeresses and one clergyman's wife were then banded together.

Elizabeth Fry Pitman, E R 1884

Out of twelve ladies forming the original association started in 1817, eleven were Quakeresses.

Elizabeth Fry Pitman, E R 1884

It is hard to believe that the poor, excited, screaming visionaries of those early days belonged to the same religious sect as do the serene, low-voiced, sweet-faced, and retiring Quakeresses of to-day.

Sabbath in Puritan New England Alice Morse Earle 1881