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Allee, Marjorie Hill. JUDITH LANKESTER. Houghton, 1930. 241p. Set in Lynchburg, VA in the 1840's, this is the story of a spunky Quaker lady.
Allee, Marjorie Hill. THE ROAD TO CAROLINA. Houghton, 1932. 241p. Adventures of Tristram Coffin in 1860 when he traveled from Indiana to North Carolina encountering the tensions of an America caught in civil war.
Allen, Irene. QUAKER INDICTMENT: AN ELIZABETH ELLIOT MYSTERY. Saint Martin’s, 1998.
Allen, Irene. QUAKER SILENCE. Villard, 1992. 210p. Introducing the Quaker clerk/sleuth, Elizabeth Elliot.
Allen, Irene. QUAKER TESTIMONY. St. Martin's Press, 1996. 268p. Another Elizabeth Elliot mystery.
Allen, Irene. QUAKER WITNESS. Villard, 1993. 254p. Second murder mystery.
Aswell, Mary Louise. ABIGAIL. Crowell, 1959. 306p. Historical fiction about the 75-year life span of a Philadelphia Quaker woman living in the 1700's.
Beatty, Patricia. WHO COMES WITH CANNONS?
Browne, Gordon. THE BASE OF THE MOUNTAIN. Yankee Magazine, 1963. 12p. A story of a Quaker wedding.
Burton, Hester. BEYOND THE WEIR BRIDGE. Crowell, 1969. 221p. Historical romance set in England and spanning years of political turmoil in the lives of the son of a Roylaist, the son of a Cromwell supporter, and Richenda, who was led to become a Quaker.
Burton, Hester. TO RAVENSRIGG. Crowell, 1976. 143p. Set in the 1780's, this is an historical tale of a young woman's adventures. She sails with her sea-captain father, encounters disaster, and then searches for Ravensrigg and her dead mother's family in England.
Byatt, A.S. THE GAME: A NOVEL. Scribners, 1967. 286p. A psychological novel about dark undercurrents brought forth in two sisters whose antagonism toward each other went unresolved in their childhood.
de Hartog, Jan. THE LAMB'S WAR. Harper & Row, 1980. 443p. An epic of the 20th century featuring an American Quaker youth and a Dutch Quaker girl newly liberated from a Nazi concentration camp and their adventures in the American Southwest.
de Harton, Jan. THE PEACEABLE KINGDOM: AN AMERICAN SAGA. Atheneum, 1972. The saga of the children of the light and their Holy Experiment from England in the time of George Fox throught many generations to 1755 in America.
de Hartog, Jan. A PECULIAR PEOPLE. Third in de Hartog's Quaker trilogy.
Donne-Smith, Basil. FAR MADDER: THE CHRONICLES OF A QUAKER MEETING. Countryside Libraries, England, 1977. 112p.
Donne-Smith, Basil. MUCH MADDER: THE CHRONICLES OF A QUAKER MEETING. Countryside Libraries, England, 1975. 112p.
Durham, Charles. WALK IN THE LIGHT. Ballantine, 1992. 638p. Novel set partly in Philadelphia, with some Quaker characters. 1971.
Eames, Marion. FAIR WILDERNESS. Swansea, Christopher Davies, 1976. 257p. A tale of the early Quaker colonizing of Pennsylvania bsed on many letters from settlers.
Ellin, Stanley. STRONGHOLD. Random, 1974. 322p. Tense drama about a newly released convict and his cohorts bent on murderous revenge agains a Qt a Quaker family which responds in a uniquely creative way.
Fager, Charles. ESTHER AND THE HEATHENS: A STORY. Kewmo Press, 1977. 28p. In this Quaker short story, a Nantucket couple engaged to be married find their families splitting into the Orthodox and Hicksite factions as they plan their wedding.
Fager, Charles. FIRE IN THE VALLEY. Book of Quaker ghost stories.
Fager, Charles. MURDER AMONG FRIENDS: A MYSTERY. Kimo Pr., 1993. A killer rewrites the agenda of a quiet Quaker conference in historic Virginia.
Fager, Charles. UNFRIENDLY PERSUASION: A QUAKER MYSTERY. Kimo, 1995. 177p.
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield. THE DEEPENING STREAM. Harcourt, Brace, 1930. 393p. Story of a Quaker family which is set in WWI era.
Foulds, Elfrida Vipont. BED IN HELL. St. Martin’s Press, 1974.
Fowler, Robert H. JASON MCGEE. Harper & Row, 1979. 322p.
Gardner, Sarah. QUAKER IDYLS. Henry Holt & Company, 1910. 284p.
Gifford, Henry. THE LOST YEARS. Skilton Ltd., 1987. 404p. Research in Quaker history suggested this historical novel based on unusual and authentic material.
Gloss, Molly. THE DAZZLE OF DAY. Tom Doherty Associates, 1997. 253p. A group of Quaker settlers travels 140 years through space to a new land and become involved in conflict.
Gobell, Lisa. THE STORMTROOPER'S WIFE. Ashgrove Pr., 1988. 138p. A novel based on real people's experiences in Nazi Germany.
Graveson, Caroline C. THE FARTHING FAMILY. Bannisdale Pr., 1955. The story of a London family in the 17th century.
Graveson, Caroline C. LONDON TO PHILADELPHIA. Bannisdale Pr. The story of a Quaker family, 1670-1689; sequel to The Farthing Family.
Grubb, Isabel. QUAKER HOMESPUNS, 1655-1833. Allenson, 1932. 144p. A collection of Quaker short stories.
Gulley, Philip. FRONT PORCH TALES. Multnomah Books, 1997. Collection of warm-hearted (true) stories by pastor of Irvington Friends Meeting in Indiana.
Gulley, Philip. HOME TOWN TALES. Multnomah, 1998. More (true) stories from the Quaker pastor of Irvinton Friends Meeting.
Hanna, Mary Carr. CASSIE AND IKE. Blair, 1973. 207p. Set in Indiana, the story of a Quaker girl's wrestling to surrender her flamboyant spirit to the light intact and with joy. Based on letters written in plain speech by the author's grandmother in the 1870's.
Hodgkin, Lucy Violet. FIERCE FEATHERS by Lucy Violet Holdsworth. Friends Home Service, 1948. 14p.
Hodgkin, Lucy Violet. GRASS OF PARNASSUS ON FIRBANK FELL by Lucy Violet Holdsworth. Friends; Book Centre, 1930. 26p. Story of George Fox seen through eyes of imaginary spectator.
Hodgkin, Lucy Violet. THE ROMANCE OF THE INWARD LIGHT by Lucy Violet Holdsworth (pseudonym). Dent, 1932. 191p., ill.
Hitchman, Janet. MEETING FOR BURIAL. Athenuem, 1968. 160p. At a Quaker meeting a remarkable woman is seen in the novel throught the eyes and in the memories of those who loved, admired and resented her.
Kirkbride, Ronald. DAVID JORDAN: THE GREAT QUAKER NOVEL OF OUR TIME. Tom Stacey, 1972. 564p. Intense and sensitive novel of faith and fellowship in the Quaker family of Jordans from 1921 to 1951 when they moved from Pennsylvania to North Carolina. This book has received fantastic reviews.
Lacey, Margaret. SILENT FRIENDS: A QUAKER QUILT. Stormline Press, 1992. 108p. Stories of three generations of a Quaker family living on an Iowa farm.
Leskov, Nicolai. VALE OF TEARS; AND ‘ON QUAKERESSES’. Bramcote Press, 1991. 126p.
Ludwig, Charles. LEVI COFFIN AND THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. Herald, 1975. 184p.
Marshall, Nancy Hicks. DEAR GRANDMA, LOVE ELIAS. Brunswick, 1984. 54p. Amusing, thought-provoking letters to a grandmother.
Maude, Mary. THE STORY OF LOVEDAY TREHERNE. Allenson, n.d. 154p. The story of a Quaker lady in England in the mid 1600's.
Mendenhall, Raymond E. QUAKER TALES OF NORTH RIVER. Carlton Pr., 1969. 124p. Warm, vibrant collection of historical fiction about a Friends' community at work, play, prayer and during periods of joy and tragedy.
Michener, James Albert. CHESAPEAKE. Random House, 1978. 865p. Magnificent epic of northeastern American history from 1583 to 1978, with sections about Quakers.
Michener, James Albert. THE FIRES OF SPRING. Fawcett, 1949. 480p. Picturesque novel about a young man's moral development and eventual marriage to a Quaker.
Mitchell, Silas Weir. HUGH WYNNE: FREE QUAKER. Century, 1897. Detailed biographical fiction of a Quaker born in Philadelphia in 1753.
Moffett, Judith. PENTERRA. Congdon & Weed, 1987. 382p. A colony of Quakers on a distant planet is confronted by new technology.
Morse, David. THE IRON BRIDGE. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1998. 436p. Story of Quaker ironworks in England in 1773.
Newman, Daisy. THE AUTUMN'S BRIGHTNESS. Friends United Pr., 1991. 251p. Dilly, a widow of 52, visits New York and finds romance but is homesick for her Quaker community.
Newman, Daisy. DILIGENCE IN LOVE. Popular Library, 1951. 240p. And Doubleday, 1951. 252p. Love story of two middle-aged people and of the New England Quaker community from which the heroine draws her strength.
Newman, Daisy. DILLY. Hodder and Stoughton, 1954. 255p. Novel about a sophisticated advertising woman who finds much to learn and admire among Quakers and saves her marriage from disaster.
Newman, Daisy. I TAKE THEE, SERENITY: A NOVEL. Houghton, 1975. 314p. Story of two young people, Peter and Serentiy, working their way through clearness for marriage with their monthly meeting.
Newman, Daisy. INDIAN SUMMER OF THE HEART. Houghton Mifflin, 1982. 376p. Sequel to I Take Thee, Serenity, with a continuation of the marriage of Peter and Serenity entertwined with a new romance of a couple in their 70's.
Palmer, Edgar Z. I WILL LIFT UP MINE EYES. Word Services, 1978. 217p. Story of generation of Plummers, a Quaker family living in America and in Kenya, Africa, from 1756 to 1974.
Palmer, Edgar Z. THE PLUMMERS OF HARMONY GROVE. Friends United Press, 1974.
Parsons, Cornelia Mitchell. THE QUAKER CROSS: A STORY OF OLD BOWNE HOUSE. National Americana Society, 1911. 342p. Historical novel of George Fox and events leading up to the building of John BBowne's house in 1663 in Flushing, Long Island.
Putnam, Nina Wilcox. THE INNER VOICE. Sheridan House, 1940. 309p. American historical novel about Quakerism in the South in the mid 1800's.
Robinson, Maude. THE TIME OF HER LIFE, AND OTHER STORIES. Swarthmore Pr., n.d. 261p. Substantially true stories woven together from letters of Quakers in England from 1682-1875.
Slonczewski, Joan. STILL FORMS ON FOXFIELD. Ballantine, 1980. 214p. Science fiction story of a small Quaker communtiy that develops in isolation on a planet they name Foxfield. Tells of their struggle with the rest of the solar system when their existance is discovered.
Snedeker, Caroline Dale. UNCHARTED WAYS. Doubleday, 1935. 340p. Story of Margaret Stevenson, a brave young Quaker orphan, whose faith is challenged severely as she travels to the New World to face Indians and anti-Quaker prejudice in Boston and eventually settles down on Nantucket Island.
Stevenson, Janet. SISTERS AND BROTHERS. Crown, 1966.
Taylor, Ernest E. FOR CONSCIENCE SAKE. Friends Bookshop, 1925. 14p. First person short story of a doctor ministering to Quaker patients in the time of King Charles.
Thomas, Anna Lloyd Braithwaite. NANCY LLOYD: THE JOURNAL OF A QUAKER PIONEER. Frank Maurice, 1927. 192p. Journal of a New England traveling minister spanning the period from her 15th birthdaty in 1681 throught the year 1700.
Thomas, Anna Lloyd Braithwaite. THE QUAKER SEEKERS OF WALES. Swarthmore Pr., 1924. 186p. A novel of the Lloyds of Dolobran in Wales and England from 1662 to 1711.
Tremain, Rose. RESTORATION: A NOVEL OF SEVENTEENTH CENTURY ENGLAND. Viking, 1989. 371p.
Tucker, George Fox. A QUAKER HOME. George B. Reed, 1891. 426p. Written in first person in a rather flowery style and set in New Bedford, MA in the 1800's, this is the story of an intense Quaker youth wrestling with finding his own leading amongst the idealistic expectations and dominating influence of a weighty Quaker family.
Underwood, Bettyu. THE FORGE AND THE FOREST. Houghton Mifflin, 1975. 257p. Set in Ohio and Connecticut in 1834, this is a vivid historical novel of a beautiful and determined French Canadian girl set on human freedom and her own independence in a time when women were considered the weaker sex.
Updegraff, Florence Maule. TRAVELER'S CANDLE. Harcourt, 1942. 237p. Story of a Quaker candlemaker and his family living a life of tenderness and faith in harsh pioneer days.
Vining, Elizabeth Janet Gray. THE VIRGINIA EXILES. Lippincott, 1955. 317p. A story of powerful moral courage in defense of liberty of conscience. A group of Pennsylvania Quakers are banished to Virginia when they refuse to subscribe to a loyalty oath in the time of the Revolution.
Weber, Amy H. THE GHOST OF ELIZABETH HADDON. The author, 1999. 78p. Historical fiction about the life of Elizabeth Haddon, as seen through the eyes of 20th century members of Haddonfield Monthly Meeting.
West, Jessamyn. EXCEPT FOR ME AND THEE: A COMPANION TO THE FRIENDLY PERSUASION. Harcourt, 1949, 1969. 309p. A continuation of the love story of Eliza and Jess Birdwell as they raise their family and move West.
West, Jessamyn. THE FRIENDLY PERSUASION. Harcourt, 1940, 1945. 214p. This story about Tess and Eliza Birdwell and their family set during the Civil War is a testament of the Quaker faith and has been made into a well-known movie.
White, Ethel. BEAR HIS MILD YOKE: THE STORY OF MARY DYER, A QUAKER MARTYR IN NEW ENGLAND. Abingdon, 1966. 254p.
Whitney, Janet. JUDITH. Morrow, 1943. 340p. Set in post-Revolutionary Philadelphia, this love story involves a high-spirited Quaker girl and a non-Quaker doctor, her suspension from the Society of Friends, and her eventual reconciliation.
Woolaston, Graeme. STRANGER THAN LOVE. Inland Book Co., 1985. 160p. A novel about homosexuality, nonviolence, and answering "that of God."
Worth, Kathryn. THEY LOVED TO LAUGH. Doubleday, 1944. A light romance set in North Carolina. An orphan girl comes to live with a doctor and falls in love with his sons.
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