https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/ecc/archive/emforum/projects/brieflives/ The latest from Early Modern Forum » Brief Lives: Biographies from Early Modernity (tag [America]) en-GB (C) 2026 University of Warwick Mon, 08 Jul 2013 14:43:52 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss SiteBuilder2, University of Warwick, http://go.warwick.ac.uk/sitebuilder 16th Century 17th Century 18th Century 19th Century America Britain France Italy Untagged https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/ecc/archive/emforum/projects/brieflives/mary_weston/ <div class="news-thumbnail" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 5px;"><img class="thumbnail" width="100" height="100" src="https://warwick.ac.uk/sitebuilder2/file/fac/arts/history/ecc/archive/emforum/projects/brieflives?sbrPage=%2Ffac%2Farts%2Fhistory%2Fecc%2Farchive%2Femforum%2Fprojects%2Fbrieflives&newsItem=094d43d53e1cef6c013ebd04a2a130fc" alt="image"></div><p style="text-align: justify;">Mary Weston was an eighteenth-century Quaker preacher and missionary, who undertook extensive ministerial work in the British Isles and the American Colonies. Ceding domestic responsibilities to a husband was highly unusual for an eighteenth-century woman. This Brief Life therefore intends to contextualise not only the mechanisms of support within Quakerism that were provided for Mary throughout her ministerial career, but also the relationships that developed with her husband and daughter as a result of her frequent calls to ministry.</p> Britain 18th Century America Sun, 19 May 2013 13:39:57 GMT 094d43d53e1cef6c013ebd04a2a130fc