Quaker Communities in Early Modern Wales

From Resistance to Respectability

Author(s) Richard C Allen

Language: English

Genre(s): Religion

  • July 2007 · 224 pages

  • · Hardback - 9780708320778

The Society of Friends (Quakers) originated in the turmoil of the Civil War years and Interregnum. Examining Friends in Wales, especially in Monmouthshire in the period 1654-1836, this book assesses the lives of Friends, notably how education, careers, and marriage, were determined by a code of conduct.

The detailed research that has gone into this book make it fascinating for anyone interested in the history of rural Wales.'

Author(s): Richard C Allen

Dr. Richard Allen is Lecturer in Early Modern and Celtic History, at Sunderland University. He is an authority on the Quaker movement and has contributed to books on the subject published by Ashgate and the University of Sydney Press.

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