Women and Quakerism

The number of famous and socially active women in the Society of Friends has been out of all proportion to its size. Especially striking is the fact that two of the most famous leaders of the Women's Rights Movement in the United States, Lucretia Mott and Susan B. Anthony, came from Quaker backgrounds. Other outstanding women in Quaker history include Mary Dyer, religious martyr hanged on Boston Common, Mary Fisher, missionary traveller to the Sultan of Turkey, Elizabeth Fry, the famous' En...