Friends in York

Friends in York
Author: Wright Sheila Wright
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2019-08-08
Genre: HISTORY
ISBN: 1474473679

This study challenges John Stephenson Rowntree's pronouncement in 1835 that Quaker membership was in decline, and outlines the remarkable revitalization of one Monthly Meeting - in York - between 1780 and 1860.