A Book of Quaker Saints

by Lucy Violet Hodgkin, Frederic Cayley Robinson (Illustrator)

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526 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 25, 2007

About the author

1869-1954

Reviews

[Rhiannon Grant · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is one of those books which I feel like I should have read long ago, probably in childhood, but somehow never actually did. Many of the stories are familiar, although some were new to me - and I have sometimes been surprised by how little known they are among Friends. I think I was as surprised to visit Reading Meeting and find that nobody knew about the Children of Reading Meeting as my friend Janet was to discover that I'd never heard of Stephen Grellet! Both those ignorances can be resolved by reading this book - although it is worth a note about the genre. I got on much better with it once I had looked at the initial date of writing (it was first published in 1917) and compared each story with the kind of 'campfire yarn' which Baden-Powell gives in his 1908 'Scouting for Boys'. These are tales you can read in a book but which are meant to be read aloud, and I found that imagining that setting helped me to be patient with both some of the stylistic quirks and the elevation of story-telling above historical accuracy.

[James Giddings · Rating 5 out of 5]

A compendium of stories about famous Quakers and their exploits, written for children. Eminently readable. Of course, Quakers don't really have saints in the usual sense...