10 One must be careful of anachronism here; 17th-century Quakers were not 20th-century feminists. They did not intend that women should possess material independence or social autonomy, and had no conception of their gender as an interest group.
11 George Fox, A Collection of Many Select and Christian Epistles, Letters and Testimonies … (2 vols., London, 1698), 313; Braithwaite, Second Period of Quakerism, 274.
12 William Penn, Just Measures (London, 1692).
13 Margaret Hope Bacon, “A Widening Path: Women in the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Move Toward Equality,” in John M. Moore, ed., Friends in the Delaware Valley: The Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1681-1981 (Haverford, 1981), 173-99.