Alice Paul And The American Suffrage Campaign

BY KATHERINE ADAMS AND MICHAEL KEENE
An engaging biography of suffragist Alice Paul and her outstanding knack for raising attention for her cause. The books discusses her Quaker lineage as an important motivating factor in her desire to be an activist and act nonviolently. The back cover of this book sums it up as "the remarkable story of the first person to picket the White House, the first to attempt a national political boycott, the first to burn the president in effigy, and the first to lead a successful campaign of nonviolence."

University of Illinois Press 2007 296 PP Paper

$25.00 (in stock)

And Furthermore

BY JUDI DENCH
And Furthermore is the story of a great actress's career. Of all the plays and films and actors/actresses that she has been in and known, but It is also the story of Judi Dench's life, filled with her impish sense of humor, diamond-sharp intelligence and photos from her personal archives. Follows on from her earlier but sadly now unavailable "with a crack in her voice" Judi Dench is a private person in many ways, a Quaker, but not one to make much of her faith.

St Martins Press 2011 265 PP. Cloth

$26.99 (in stock)

Angelina Grimke

Voice Of Abolition

BY ELLEN TODRAS
Based on her diaries, letters, and other primary sources, this biography follows an intense and sometimes difficult woman from childhood to her career as a reformer, her passionate courtship and marriage with abolitionist Theodore Weld, her later life of service to the cause in spite of chronic ill health.

Linnett 1999 178 PP. Cloth

$25.00 (in stock)

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

A Biography

BY ELIIZABETH CAZDEN
This first biography of the 19th-century feminist and first American woman to be ordained a Christian minister is steeped in family correspondence, contemporary newspaper accounts, and Blackwell's own work. Cazden follows Blackwell from her student days at Oberlin, through her feminist activity on the lecture circuit with Lucy Stone, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony, to her marriage to Elizabeth Blackwell's brother Samuel (on condition he would share household responsibilities while she worked) and rearing of five daughters.

Feminist Press 1983 315 PP. Paper

$4.50 (in stock)

Arthur Morgan Of The T V A

F D R 's Utopian

BY ROY TALBERT
Arthur Morgan is a now rather overlooked Humanist Quaker, a member of the Yellow Springs meeting in Ohio. My goodness he did a lot of things: He helped found the still lively Celo community in N Carolina and was a keen Utopian, founding several other organizations to promote true community. Best known as President of the TVA, close associate of Roosevelt and promoter of many cooperative schemes, notably the town of Norris in Tennessee. He later worked for AFSC.

University Press of Mississippi 1987 218 PP. Cloth

$2.50 (in stock)

Autobiography Of Allen Jay (1831 - 1910)

EDITED WITH A FOREWORD BY JOSHUA BROWN
If you want to understand Quakerism in the 1600s you have to read Fox's journal, for the 1700's Woolmans Journal and for the complex challenges and changes faced by Friends in 1800's you have to read the Autrobiography of Allen Jay. Born just after the Hicksite Orthodox separation he grew up in the unprogrammed tradition, but was soon active as a preacher in the programmed tradition and worked to change Quakerisms relationship to the world as he believed early Friends would have wanted.

FUP 2010 420 PP. Paper

$25.00 (in stock)

Binding The Wounds Of War

Ayoung Relief Worker's Letters Home 1943-47

BY CLIFFORD BARNARD
Clifford Barnard was a CO in WW2 and joined the Friends Ambulance Unit, the book is a collection of his letters home to his parents and tells of his experiences in training and then in the newly liberated Europe, including the Sandbostel camp for political prisoners that is more fully described in his previous book "Two weeks in May". The letters are delightful, even if the subject matter is often sad, there are elements of biography and the touching romance with his future wife is cataloged

Pronoun Press 2010 198 PP. Paper

$17.00 (in stock)

Biographical Dictionary Of British Quakers

In Commerce & Industry 1775 -1920

COMPILED BY EDWARD MILLIGAN
Many years in the making, the former librarian and archivist at Friends House in London has garnered and written 2,800 biographies of Friends active in industry or commerce. The large double columned pages mean this really is a treasure house of information for historians and genealogists. Indexed by occupation, place, apprentice master, and school attended. 8 appendices and 50 pages of illustrations.

Sessions 2007 605 PP. Paper

$60.00 (in stock)

A Brief Memoir Of Elizabeth Fry

1781-1845

EDITED BY DAVID GOFF
A republication of a document originally published by the London Tract Association of Friends, which tells the story of Elizabeth Fry, often in her own words.

Friends United Press 2008 104 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)

Bringing Progress To Paradise

How I Changed Nepal, How Nepal Changed Me

BY JEFF RASLEY
American mountaineer (and First Friends Meeting of Indianapolis attender) Jeff Rasley seeks to give back to Nepal after many successful and life-changing treks there, and in the process learns something about the need for what he calls a mutually-beneficial exchange between East and West.

Conari Press 2010 234 PP. Paper

$15.95 (in stock)

British Quakers (65)

WIKIPEDIA
Secondhand as new- if you have ever wondered what those books that just reprint Wikipedia entries look like-heres your oportunity. Has many British Friends entries. Kenneth E. Boulding, Scilla Elworthy, Donald Swann, Jonathan Fryer, Kathleen Lonsdale Cedric Smith, Laurence Lerner, Adam Curle and many others- or you could just look them up on the web.

LLC 2010 127 PP. Paper

$15.00 USED - availability checked Feb 11th 3:39am EST

Brother Outsider

The Life Of Bayard Rustin - Dvd

BY NANCY KATES AND BENNETT SINGER
"Brother Outsider" illuminates the life and work of Quaker Bayard Rustin, who has been described as "the unknown hero" of the civil rights movement. A tireless crusader for justice, a disciple of Gandhi, a mentor to Martin Luther King Jr., and the architect of the legendary 1963 March on Washington, Rustin dared to live as an openly gay man during the fiercely homophobic 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Brother Outsider reveals the price that Rustin paid for this openness, chronicling both the triumphs and setbacks of his remarkable 60-year career. Five years in the making and the winner of more than 25 awards and honors.

Western Film Projects 2008 87 MINUTES Dvd

$24.95 (in stock)

But One Race

The Life Of Robert Purvis

BY MARGARET HOPE BACON
Born in South Carolina to a wealthy white father and mixedrace mother, Robert Purvis (1810-1898) was one of the nineteenth century's leading black abolitionists and orators. Margaret Hope Bacon uses his eloquent and often fierce speeches to provide a glimpse into the life of a passionate and distinguished man, intimately involved with a wide range ofmajor reform movements, including abolition, civil rights,Underground Railroad activism, women's rights, Irish Home Rule, Native American rights, and prison reform.

State University of New York Press 2010 308 PP. Paper

$24.95 (in stock)

The Captivity Of Elizabeth Hanson

A Quaker Kidnapped By Native Americans In 1725

BY SAMUEL BOWNAS
"On the 27th of the sixth month, called August, 1725, my husband and all our menservants being abroad, eleven Indians, armed with tomahawks and gun came furiously into the house." Thus begins the story of the captivity of Quaker Elizabeth Hanson, "taken in substance from her own mouth" by Samuel Bownas. This book contains the complete text of Bownas' 1760 edition, with a twenty page introduction and notes designed to explain the background to this true story.

Simon Webb 2007 40 PP. Paper

$10.00 (in stock)

Civil War Wives

The Lives And Times Of Angelina Grimke Weld, Varina Howell Davis, And Julia Dent Grant

BY CAROL BERKIN
Quaker Angelina Grimke renounced the slaveholding of her family and embraced the antislavery movement, but found her voice silenced by marriage to fellow reformer Theodore Weld. Varina Howell incurred the disapproval of her husband, Jefferson Davis, when she would not be an obedient wife. Though ill-prepared for her role as First Lady of the Confederacy, she became a political lobbyist for her husband's release from prison. Julia Dent, the wife of Ulysses S. Grant seemed content with the restrictions of marriage and motherhood. Only late in life did she glimpse the price of dependency.

Knopf 2010 345 PP. Cloth

$12.00 (in stock)

Dear Friend

Letters And Essays Of Elias Hicks

BY ELIAS HICKS EDITED BY PAUL BUCKLEY
Elias Hicks penned hundreds of letters. They complement his Journal, fleshing out details of his life and beliefs - revealing a man devoted to his family, neighbors and friends, to the RSOF, but more than anything else, a man simply, humbly, and steadfastly devoted to God. Some of his letters recount the trials of a traveling minister in the early 19th century. Most controversially, some put forward his theological beliefs and the scriptural basis for them. Paul Buckley has compiled and transcribed a selection of Elias Hicks' letters and essays from the original manuscripts. Footnotes & appendices explain archaic and unfamiliar words and phrases, and biographical sketches.

Inner Light 2011 296 PP. Paper

$25.00 (in stock)

Dear Friends And Brethren

25 Biographies Of Quaker Men

GIL SKIDMORE
By popular request Gil Skidmore has now written a companion volume to Dear Friends and Sisters. These accounts of lesser known Quaker men include artists and scientists, writers and bankers, some conventional, some radical and some highly eccentric.

Sowle Press 2000 64 PP. Paper

$12.00 (in stock)

Dignity, Discourse, And Destiny

The Life Of Courtney C. Smith

BY DARWIN H. STAPLETON AND DONNA HECKMAN STAPLETON
Educated at Harvard in the 1930s, took a Rhodes Scholarship, taught English literature at Princeton, and was the first national director of the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Program before becoming president of Swarthmore College in 1953 at the age of 36. His engagement with education, philanthropy, Quakerism and government over the next 16 years resonated with such major issues of the times as McCarthyism, the future of the liberal arts, and race relations. His skill at fundraising provided Swarthmore with a useful endowment. He died in office during a sit-in in January 1969.

University of Delaware 2004 253 PP Cloth

$15.00 (in stock)

Elise Boulding

A Life In The Cause Of Peace

BY MARY LEE MORRISON
Elise Boulding has been among the most influential of social reformers to advocate the integration of peace studies and women's studies. Her ideas inspired a number of works addressing the role of the family in producing social change and discussing women's unique capacity for promoting peace through nurturing and networking. Boulding's additional ideas on transnational networks and their relationship to global understanding are considered seminal contributions to modern peace studies and have earned her the title of "matriarch" of the 20th century peace movement.

McFarland and Company 2005 228 PP. Paper

$39.95 (in stock)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

An American Life

BY LORI GINZBERG
In this subtly crafted biography, the historian Lori D. Ginzberg narrates the life of a woman of great charm, enormous appetite, and extraordinary intellectual gifts who turned the limitations placed on women like herself into a universal philosophy of equal rights. Few could match Stanton's self-confidence; loving an argument, she rarely wavered in her assumption that she had won. But she was no secular saint, and her positions were not always on the side of the broadest possible conception of justice and social change. At once critical and admiring, Ginzberg captures Stanton's ambiguous place in the world of reformers and intellectuals.

Hill & Wang 2009 282 PP. Paper

$16.00 (in stock)

Elizabeth Fry - A Quaker Life

Selected Letters And Writings

EDITED BY GIL SKIDMORE
This book focuses on how Elizabeth Fry's Quaker Faith inspired her work for prison reform and her life, leading her to see the light within the impoverished and imprisoned. With Elizabeth Fry: A Quaker Life noted Quaker historian Gil Skidmore has brought together Fry's essential writings--some previously unpublished--from her journals, letters, and published work into a single volume. The result is a rich portrait of the struggles and anxieties behind the public persona of this "Quaker saint."

AltaMira 2005 246 PP. Paper

$27.00 (in stock)

Ephraim Bowles (8351)

His Quaker Heritage

JOANNA BOWLES MOTT
SECONDHAND copy hardback with no Dust Jacket. Looks as if this was privately written and printed for the family by his daughter with the sort of typescript student thesis came in back then. Corrected in places by the author in Ink. A brief family history starting with George Fox Bowles (1796-1875), the dtails of Ephraim himself. Has a collection of his writing: mainly poems and letters at the end. With genealogical charts and a few illustrations. Obviosly a work prepared with much love.

J J Newlin 1954 250 PP. Cloth

$28.00 USED - availability checked Feb 11th 3:39am EST

A Friend Among The Senecas

The Quaker Mission To Cornplanter's People

BY DAVID SWATZLER
This account of a 1799 Quaker mission to a Seneca village in northwestern Pennsylvania is based on the journal of Henry Simmons and offers a captivating look at Seneca culture of the period-their festivals and games, division of labor, and fascinating cult of dreams that effected many of their actions. The perceptive Chief Cornplanter, realizing that his people must adapt to new social and economic patterns, welcomed the Quakers as teachers, not so much for their religion, but for their knowledge of agriculture.

Stackpole Books 2000 319 PP. Cloth

$24.95 (in stock)

Friendly Heritage (4187)

Letters From The Quaker Past

BY HENRY CADBURY
SECONDHAND COPY,owners sticker on frontg good condition book with dust jacket. A collection of the letters that Henry Cadbury wrote to be published in Friends Journal over many years. It starts with one written from England in 1941 and after another 240 ends in 1969. Topics range from Friends and the erie canal to Benjamin Franklins Quakerishness, and even William Bradford, the young man charged by Fox himself to be the first Quaker Bookdealer in America, but who didn't quite manage it.

Friends Journal 1972 342 PP. Cloth

$35.00 USED - availability checked Feb 11th 3:39am EST

Friends For A Lifetime

The Saga Of A Sixty-three-year Quaker Love Affair

BY DON AND LOIS LAUGHLIN
Lois and Don found each other as high school kids. It is the story of love, depression, problem solving and fulfillment--the story of Lois' struggle to find a life for herself as the "wife of one and mother of six." It speaks to the place of sex, or lack thereof, in a long-lasting marriage. What do you do with a husband "who is the same old guy he has always been and not about to change much?" Together, we reveal the inner workings of one marriage. There is probably no other like it in the world.

Springdale Press 2011 211 PP. Paper

$15.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Gandhi's Interpreter

A Life Of Horace Alexander

BY GEOFFREY CARNALL
Horace Alexander was an English Quaker who negotiated relations between Indian nationalist leaders and the British Government in the years before the transfer of power. Alexander was Gandhi's trusted intermediary; at the same time, he enjoyed the confidence of British Conservative ministers and Labour representatives. He avoided publicity so successfully that his role has almost entirely escaped the attention of historians, including his efforts to prevent the outbreak of the Second World War.

Edinburgh UP 2010 320 PP. Cloth

$60.00 (in stock)

A Gentleman Of Color

The Life Of James Forten

BY JULIE WINCH
"Less than a decade ago, Forten remained a footnote in books on U.S. and African-American history. This new critical biography, the first serious work on his life and legacy, not only restores him to his rightful place in American history, but also presents readers with an invigorating and challenging new portrait of pre- and post-Revolutionary race relations and identities....The strength of the book, aside from rediscovering Forten, is the careful and often surprising research into the complexity of African-American life in the 18th and early 19th centuries." - Publishers Weekly

Oxford University Press 2003 528 PP. Paper

$18.95 (in stock)

George Watson

Innovative Quaker Educator

BY GEORGE WATSON
George Watson married Elizabeth Grill in 1937, and in 1938 they both joined 57th Street Meeting. They had 4 children and also raised 3 orphaned sisters from Germany who had been pen pals. During the War, the Watsons worked with AFSC, George was drafted as a CO in 1945 and after the War began a long career teaching at Roosevelt University in Chicago. Both George and Elizabeth were very active in FWCC. Moving to Long Island they helped found Lloyd Harbor Meeting. In 1980 George retired, and the couple moved to Friends Community in Easton, Mass. They then traveled extensively in the ministry in the U.S. and Canada and Britain. In 1991, they moved to Minneapolis where Elizabeth died in 2006.

G Watson 2010 207 PP. Paper

$16.95 (in stock)

Gerrard Winstanley And The Republic Of Heaven

BY DAVID BOULTON
Winstanley was the leader of the diggers in the English revolution, the author of twenty books and pamphlets in a four-year period. Whether he became a Quaker towards the end of his life is conjecture, but he was buried in a Quaker burial ground. Boulton looks at his life and work and his relevance in a post Christian world.

DHM 1999 128 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)

A Girl Named Zippy

Growing Up Small In Mooreland, Indiana

BY HAVEN KIMMEL
Quaker author Haven Kimmel writes honestly and engagingly about her quirky years growing up in the small town of Mooresland, Indiana. Her playful recounting of true childhood stories is just as entertaining as her childhood nickname, Zippy.

Randomhouse 2002 304 PP. Paper

$13.95 (in stock)