Citations:Public Friend


 * 1982, Russell Frank Weigley, Philadelphia: A 300 Year History, W. W. Norton & Company (ISBN 9780393016109), page 44:
 * There was a constant exchange of “Public Friends” traveling in the ministry from one Quaker group to another. “Public Friends” continued to visit Philadelphia from England and Ireland each year, and more frequent visits were exchanged ...
 * 1988, Joan M. Jensen, Loosening the Bonds: Mid-Atlantic Farm Women, 1750-1850, Yale University Press (ISBN 9780300042658), page 145:
 * Because of the importance of the actions and arguments of Quaker women in the public sphere, it is necessary to understand in some detail the role of Quaker women ministers. To become a Public Friend, as Quaker ministers were termed, ...
 * 2002, Richard T. Vann, David Eversley, Friends in Life and Death: British and Irish Quakers in the Demographic Transition, Cambridge University Press (ISBN 9780521526647), page 54:
 * Material relating to the daily lives of the Irish Quakers is much scarcer than for their English counterparts. The biographies, as in England, are heavily biased towards the “Public Friends,” or ministers in the Society, and thus towards the [wealthy].
 * 2014, Amanda E. Herbert, Female Alliances: Gender, Identity, and Friendship in Early Modern Britain, Yale University Press (ISBN 9780300199253), page 145:
 * As late as the 1750s the actions of Public Friends were considered to be strange, and their motivations unknowable, even sometimes to fellow Quakers. Repetitious, wide-ranging travel was dangerous and painful in this period.