Mary Howgill | |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | c. 1618 |
| Died | after 1669 |
| Nationality | English |
| Denomination | Society of Friends |
Mary Howgill (c. 1618 – after 1669)[1] was a prominent early member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in England. She is regarded as one of the Valiant Sixty, the principal early preachers of Quakerism.[2][3] She is best known for her preaching and for her writings, especially her 1656 Letter to Oliver Cromwell, called Protector, a lengthy public defence of the Quakers personally delivered to Cromwell.[4][5][6]
- ^ "Entry for 'Howgill, Francis (1618?–1669)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 2004.
- ^ Taylor, Ernest (1988). The Valiant Sixty (3 ed.). William Sessions. p. 40. ISBN 978-1850720331.
- ^ Vipont, Elfrida (1975). George Fox and the Valiant Sixty. Hamish Hamilton. p. 129.
- ^ Mary Howgill (1656). A Remarkable Letter of Mary Howgill to Oliver Cromwell, Called Protector.
- ^ Alan Rudrum; Joseph Black; Holly Faith Nelson, eds. (2001). The Broadview Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Prose. Broadview Press. p. 535.
- ^ Phyllis Mack (1992). Visionary Women. University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-07845-4.