Puritan & Quaker Writers
George Fox
Founder of the Quakers, whose Journal records a life spent seeking and proclaiming the inward light of Christ.
John Bunyan
The tinker of Bedford, whose Pilgrim's Progress has guided more readers than any English book but the Bible.
John Woolman
An American Quaker whose Journal witnesses to a tender conscience and an early, costly stand against slavery.
Robert Barclay
A Scottish Quaker whose Apology gave the Society of Friends its most careful theological defence.
William Penn
The Quaker founder of Pennsylvania, whose maxims and defence of conscience marry plain living to civil liberty.