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09 January 2009

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What Tom, not a Quaker? - preview

Photo: Ellie Kurttz Copyright RSC

Photo: Ellie Kurttz Copyright RSC
When it comes to early Quaker history, I can just about cope with George Fox and Margaret Fell, James Nayler and William Penn, but venturing further into the turbulent mid-seventeenth century feels rather like setting out without a guide across the trackless wastes of Morecambe Bay
  • Nor is there much fiction or drama to help (for an adult audience, that is; younger readers are well catered for by Ann Turnbull and others)
  • Given the dramatic material – civil war, plague, fire and scientific revolution – this is surprising

  • Rowena Loverance

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