Friend (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Jane Yolen
- First Published: 1972
- Time of Work: 1624–1691
- Setting: England
- Principal Characters: George Fox, Margaret Askew Fell Fox, James Nayler, William Penn, Thomas Fell, Oliver Cromwell, Charles II, Thomas Lower
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Leadership, Religion, England or English people, Seventeenth century, Christianity, Faith, Preaching, Biography, Society of Friends or Quakers
- Locales: England
Form and Content
In Friend: The Story of George Fox and the Quakers, Jane Yolen draws a sympathetic portrait of the founder of the Quaker movement. Born in a village in the English Midlands in 1624, Fox trod a long and tireless path before his death in London in 1691. Yolen’s chapters follow the steps of Fox’s career, beginning with his childhood as an unusually grave weaver’s son. His preaching career began to flower when he was barely in his twenties, and from that time on, he wandered throughout England, gradually establishing the distinctive doctrines of the...
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