Subject search:biography

Bart de Ligt (1883-1938) : peace activist and peace researcher

by Peter Van den Dungen
Pamphlet, 1990
Tags
peace activism
Collections
BA - Biography - not Quaker, Your library
Barcode
3852
Status
Available
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BA DE LIGT DUN c2

Bart de Ligt (1883-1938) : peace activist and peace researcher

by Peter Van den Dungen
Pamphlet, 1990
Tags
peace activism
Collections
BA - Biography - not Quaker, Your library
Barcode
3851
Status
Available
Call number
BA DE LIGT DUN c1

Grandfather Gandhi

by Arun Gandhi
Hardcover, 2012
Tags
biography, nonviolence, peace, anger, consequences, history, India, respect, sharing
Collections
J - Children/JYFs, Your library
Series
Grandfather Gandhi (1)
Barcode
6142
Status
Available
Call number
JP BA GANDHI large

Journey toward freedom : the story of Sojourner Truth

by Jacqueline Bernard
Paperback, 1990
Tags
slavery, abolition of slavery, Quaker Meeting
Collections
BA - Biography - not Quaker, Your library
Barcode
4269
Status
Available
Call number
BA TRUTH BER

Biko

by Donald Woods
Paperback, 1979
Collections
BA - Biography - not Quaker, Your library
Barcode
4030
Status
Available
Call number
BA BIKO WOO

Tulip trees & Quaker gentlemen : 19th-century horticulture at Longwood Gardens

by Leslie Spraker
Pamphlet, 1975
Tags
Quaker history, Longwood Gardens, Pennsylvania, Chester County, Joshua & Samuel Peirce, William Darlington, arboretum, William Penn, Gloucestershire England, Pierre Samuel du Pont
Collections
Q - Quakerism, Your library
Barcode
6132
Status
Available
Call number
QH SPR special folder

Frost Bytes

by Pene A. Greet & Georgina D. Price Joint Authors
Paperback, 1995
Tags
20th century Quakers, Australian Quakers, Alaska, Antarctica, autobiography, correspondence, Mawson Base, research, atmosphere, Aurora Australis, Aurora Borealis
Collections
B - Biography - Quaker, Your library
Barcode
6129
Status
Available
Call number
B PRICE GRE

Headmaster by chance

by William Nicolle Oats
Paper Book, 1986
Tags
20th century Quakers, education, Quaker education, Friends School, Quaker biography, Quaker autobiography
Collections
B - Biography - Quaker, Your library
Barcode
6130
Status
Available
Call number
B OATS c2

A golden string : the story of Dorothy J. Ross

by June Epstein
Hardcover, 1981
Tags
20th century, Australia, Melbourne, Geelong, Merton Hall, Melbourne Church of England Girls Grammar School, UNESCO, London, Europe, Oberwyl
Collections
BA - Biography - not Quaker, Your library
Barcode
4214
Status
Available
Call number
BA ROSS EPS

Schweitzer: A biography

by George N. Marshall & David Poling Joint Authors
Hardcover, 1971
Tags
Alsace, 19th century, organ, Africa, mission, jungle, ethics, WWI, WWII, hospital
Collections
BA - Biography - not Quaker, Your library
Barcode
4151
Status
Available
Call number
BA SCHWEITZER MAR

Gandhi : a memoir

by William L. Shirer
Paperback, 1981
Collections
BA - Biography - not Quaker, Your library
Barcode
2995
Status
Available
Call number
BA GANDHI SHI

What Miss Mitchell saw

by Hayley Barrett
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
astronomy, Nantucket, Quaker biography, 19th century Quakers, history, comet, Denmark, Vassar College, Maria Mitchell
Collections
J - Children/JYFs, Your library
Barcode
6102
Status
Available
Call number
JC B MITCHELL BAR

The fearless Benjamin Lay : the Quaker dwarf who became the first revolutionary abolitionist

by Marcus Rediker
Hardcover, 2017
Tags
17th century Quakers, 18th century Quakers, abolition, biography, Quaker biography, Quaker history, America, England
Collections
B - Biography - Quaker, Your library
Barcode
6097
Status
Available
Call number
B LAY RED c2

On the edge of the primeval forest : the experiences and observations of a doctor in Equatorial Africa

by Albert Schweitzer
Hardcover, 1953
Tags
Africa, social issues, Schweitzer, medicine, anthropology, memoir, Gabon
Collections
BA - Biography - not Quaker, Your library
Status
Available
Call number
BA SCHWEITZER

J. P., his biography

by Allan Scarfe Joint Author.
Hardcover, 1975
Tags
Gandhi, India, socialism, Narayan
Collections
BA - Biography - not Quaker, Your library
Barcode
3451
Status
Available
Call number
BA NARAYAN SCA c1

George Stephenson : the remarkable life of the founder of the railways

by Hunter Davies
Paperback, 1980
Tags
steam trains, railways, Liverpool, Manchester, the Rocket, 19th century, Britain
Collections
BA - Biography - not Quaker, Your library
Barcode
4446
Status
Available
Call number
BA STEPHENSEN DAV

Friends and brothers : a life of Gerard Kennedy Tucker, founder of the Brotherhood of St. Laurence and Community Aid Abroad

by John Handfield
Hardcover, 1980
Tags
Anglican, Victoria, Melbourne, Lara, Geelong, Western Australia, Guy Cox, WWI, Brotherhood of St Laurence, Richard Austin, Avalon — 1 more, Community Aid Abroad
Collections
BA - Biography - not Quaker, Your library
Status
Available
Call number
BA TUCKER HAN

Growing up plain among conservative Wilburite Quakers : the journey of a public Friend

by Wilmer A. Cooper
Paperback, 1999
Tags
Quaker autobiography, 20th century Quakers, American Quakers, Ohio, Earlham, Quaker history, Conservative Friends
Collections
B - Biography - Quaker, Your library
Barcode
6087
Status
Available
Call number
B COOPER

Unlacing the heart : connecting with what really matters

by Henry B. Freeman
Paperback, 2015
Tags
listening, personal stories, support
Collections
C - Quaker Religious Writings, Your library
Barcode
6086
Status
Available
Call number
C FRE

The clouded Quaker star : James Nayler, 1618-1660

by Vera Massey
Paperback, 1999
Tags
Quaker biography, 17th century Quakers, Quaker history, Bristol, Exeter, prison, Swarthmoor
Collections
B - Biography - Quaker, Your library
Barcode
6089
Status
Available
Call number
B NAYLER MAS c2

Quakers and the arts : "plain and fancy", an Anglo-American perspective

by David Sox
Paperback, 2000
Tags
Benjamin West, Edward Hicks, James Fenimore Cooper, Walt Whitman, John Greenleaf Whittier, Joan Baez, James Michener, Sheila Hancock, Judi Dench, Ben Kingsley, Paul Eddington — 15 more, Roger Fry, Henry Scott Tuke, Dolley Madison, Thomas Clarkson, Joseph Southall, Austin Wright, Robin Tanner, Daniel Boone, Jessamyn West, Logan Pearsall Smith, Mary Smith Costelloe Berenson, Gerald Priestland, James Turrell, Anne Wynn-Wilson, Quaker Tapestry
Collections
A - Quaker Arts, Your library
Barcode
6082
Status
Available
Call number
A SOX

Susan B. Anthony : a biography of a singular feminist

by Kathleen Barry
Hardcover, 1988
Tags
19th century Quakers, American Quakers, women's movement, suffrage, feminism, emancipation, queer
Collections
B - Biography - Quaker, Your library
Barcode
6275
Status
Available
Call number
B ANTHONY BAR

Affectionate cousins : T. Sturge Moore and Marie Appia

by Sylvia Legge
Hardcover, 1980
Tags
19th century Quakers, 20th century Quakers, English Friends, Vaudois, art, Vale Press
Collections
B - Biography - Quaker, Your library
Barcode
2919
Status
Available
Call number
B MOORE & APPIA LEG c2

Jane Haining : a life of love and courage

by Mary Miller
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
Scotland, Hungary, WWII, Auschwitz, Budapest
Collections
BA - Biography - not Quaker, Your library
Barcode
5957
Status
Available
Call number
BA HAINING MIL

Valiant Friend : the life of Lucretia Mott

by Margaret Hope Bacon
Paperback, 1980
Tags
19th century Quakers, American Quakers, abolition, Quaker history, suffrage, social justice, Nantucket
Collections
B - Biography - Quaker, Your library
Barcode
607
Status
Available
Call number
B MOTT BAC 1980

The value of truth and trust : the story of Cochise

by Ann Donegan Johnson
Paper Book, 1977
Tags
truth, honesty, history, fighting, trust, Native Americans, America, Apache, Arizona, war, peace — 4 more, Tomas Jeffords, Ulysses Grant, General Howard, treaty
Collections
J - Children/JYFs, Your library
Series
ValueTales
Barcode
5935
Status
Available
Call number
JC P JOH

Lives that speak : stories of twentieth-century Quakers

by Marnie Clark Editor
Paperback, 2004
Tags
Quaker biography, Steve Angell, Elise Boulding, Calhoun Geiger, Gordon Hirabayashi, Fay Honey Knopp, Bill Kreidler, Sigrid Lund, Marlene and Steve Pedigo, Barbara Reynolds, David Richie — 11 more, Bayard Rustin, Floyd Schmoe, Carol Reilley Urner, Gilbert White, Signe Wilkinson, Violet Zaru, Emily Green Balch, AFSC, FSC, Philip Noel-Baker, William Vickrey
Collections
J - Children/JYFs, Your library
Barcode
6172
Status
Available
Call number
JYF B QUAKERS CLA c2

Towards a high attic; the early life of George Eliot, 1819-1880

by Elfrida Vipont
Hardcover, 1971
Tags
George Eliot, biography, Mary Ann Evans, 18th century, 19th century
Collections
J - Children/JYFs, Your library
Barcode
1119
Status
Available
Call number
JC BA ELIOT VIP

Valiant Friend : the life of Lucretia Mott

by Margaret Hope Bacon
Paperback, 1999
Tags
19th century Quakers, American Quakers, abolition, Quaker history, suffrage, social justice, Nantucket
Collections
B - Biography - Quaker, Your library
Barcode
6196
Status
Available
Call number
B MOTT BAC 1995

Dunera lives. Volume 1, a visual history

by K. S. Inglis Joint author
Paperback, 2018
Tags
Hay, Tatura, Orange, WWII, Bahaus, Hans Lindau, Anita Holper Radok, Uwe Radok, Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack, Olive Hirschfeld, Jules Stocky — 5 more, art, detention, Jews, Australia, Australian Quakers
Collections
H - History, Your library
Barcode
6182
Status
Available
Call number
H ING

Anthony Benezet : from the original memoir

by Wilson Armistead
Paperback, 1859
Tags
American history, european settlement, non-Quaker biography
Collections
B - Biography - Quaker, Your library
Barcode
5921
Status
Available
Call number
B BENEZET ARM

Quaker torch bearers

by Quakers
Hardcover, 1943
Tags
18th century Quakers, 19th century Quakers, 20th century Quakers, Quaker history, American Quakers, Jesse H. Holmes, William I. Hull, John Woolman, Elias Hicks, Isaac T. Hopper, Lucretia Mott — 8 more, Benjamin Hallowell, Martha Schofield, Elizabeth Powell Bond, Joseph S. Walton, Anna T. Jeanes, Jonathon W. Plummer, Howard M. Jenkins, Henry W Wilbur
Collections
J - Children/JYFs, Your library
Barcode
6184
Status
Available
Call number
JYF B QUAKERS QUA

Sons of Providence : the Brown brothers, the slave trade, and the American Revolution

by Charles Rappleye
Hardcover, 2006
Tags
18th century Quakers, Rhode Island, slavery, Quaker biography, American Quakers, abolition, history
Collections
B - Biography - Quaker, Your library
Barcode
6169
Status
Available
Call number
B BROWN, J&M RAP

Encountering the light : a journey taken : a collection of five talks given to Irish Friends between 2000 and 2004

by Martin Lynn
Paperback, 2007
Tags
Quaker thought, Quaker practice, spirituality, spiritual journey, light
Collections
Q - Quakerism, Your library
Barcode
5980
Status
Available
Call number
Q LYN c5

Encountering the light : a journey taken : a collection of five talks given to Irish Friends between 2000 and 2004

by Martin Lynn
Paperback, 2007
Tags
Quaker thought, Quaker practice, spirituality, spiritual journey, light
Collections
Q - Quakerism, Your library
Barcode
5978
Status
Available
Call number
Q LYN c3

Encountering the light : a journey taken : a collection of five talks given to Irish Friends between 2000 and 2004

by Martin Lynn
Paperback, 2007
Tags
Quaker thought, Quaker practice, spirituality, spiritual journey, light
Collections
Q - Quakerism, Your library
Barcode
5979
Status
Available
Call number
Q LYN c4

Ted Studebaker : a man who loved peace

by Joy Hofacker Moore
Paperback, 1987
Tags
peace, brethren, conscientious objection, conscription, Vietnam
Collections
J - Children/JYFs, Your library
Barcode
3277
Status
Available
Call number
JC BA STUDEBAKER MOO

The fearless Benjamin Lay : the Quaker dwarf who became the first revolutionary abolitionist

by Marcus Rediker
Hardcover, 2017
Tags
17th century Quakers, 18th century Quakers, abolition, biography, Quaker biography, Quaker history, America, England
Collections
B - Biography - Quaker, Your library
Barcode
5963
Status
Available
Call number
B LAY RED c1

The stolen children : their stories : including extracts from the Report of the National Inquiry into the separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their families

by Carmel Bird Editor
Paperback, 1998
Tags
Australia, Australian history, personal stories, First Nations, Aboriginal issues, biography
Collections
R - Racial Issues, Your library
Barcode
5769
Status
Available
Call number
EE BIR

The journal of George Fox

by George Fox
Hardcover, 1962
Collections
B - Biography - Quaker, Your library
Barcode
5747
Status
Available
Call number
B FOX JON 1962

Encountering the light : a journey taken : a collection of five talks given to Irish Friends between 2000 and 2004

by Martin Lynn
Paperback, 2007
Tags
Quaker thought, Quaker practice, spirituality, spiritual journey, light
Collections
C - Quaker Religious Writings, Your library
Barcode
5888
Status
Available
Call number
C LYN c2

Goatwalking

by Jim Corbett
Hardcover, 1991
Tags
philosophy, peace, nonviolent acion, social justice, simplicity, spiritual life, sustainability, Quaker autobiography, journal, Sanctuary Movement, Quakerism — 2 more, refugees, covenant
Collections
P - Peace, war, nonviolence, Your library
Barcode
5741
Status
Available
Call number
P COR

Facing social revolution : the personal journey of a Quaker economist

by John P. Powelson
Paperback, 1987
Tags
personal growth, poverty, social concerns, social responsibility, economist, apartheid
Collections
E - Social Issues, Your library
Barcode
3081
Status
Available
Call number
EC POW

Biographical dictionary of British Quakers in commerce and industry 1775-1920

by Edward H. Milligan
Paperback, 2007
Tags
Quaker Genealogy, Quaker history, genealogy, Quaker industrialist, Quaker banking, biography, Quaker Biography
Collections
B - Biography - Quaker, Your library
Barcode
5721
Status
Available
Call number
B QUAKERS MIL REF

A book of Quaker saints

by L. Violet Hodgkin
Paperback, 1968
Tags
Quaker biography, Quaker history, JYFs, George Fox, Purefoy, Margaret Fox, Miles Halhead, James Parnell, Reading Meeting, James Nayler, William Dewsbury — 6 more, Mary Samm, Woodhouse, Richard Sellar, Amor Stoddart, Mary Fisher, Stephen Grellet
Collections
J - Children/JYFs, Your library
Barcode
3523
Status
Available
Call number
JYF B QUAKERS HOD

Transformative Friends 2015: William Lovett, Robert Vogel, Josephine Duveneck, Heberto Sein, Marjorie Sykes, John and Alice Way, and Albert Bigelow

by Anthony Manousos Editor
Paperback, 2015
Tags
biography, Quaker biography, American Quakers, 20th century Quakers, peace, social justice
Collections
B - Biography - Quaker, Your library
Barcode
5697
Status
Available
Call number
B QUAKERS MAN

J. P., His biography

by Allan Scarfe Joint Author.
Hardcover, 1975
Tags
Gandhi, India, socialism, Narayan
Collections
BA - Biography - not Quaker, Your library
Barcode
5642
Status
Available
Call number
BA NARAYAN SCA c2

An Autobiography : The Story of My Experiments with the Truth

by Mahatma Gandhi
Hardcover, 1949
Collection
Your library
Barcode
5637
Status
Available
Call number
CA GANDHI

The life journey of a Quaker artist

by Dorothea Johnson Blom
Pamphlet, 1980
Tags
Quaker biography, art, Quaker autobiography, spiritual journey, 20th century Quakers
Collections
CP - PENDLE HILL PAMPHLETS, Your library
Barcode
5631
Status
Available
Call number
CP 232/2

Heirloom : second anthology of the Melbourne Child Survivors of the Holocaust

by Marietta Elliott-Kleerkoper Co-editor
Paperback, 2006
Tags
Holocaust, Melbourne, anthology, family, memory, Jews, children
Collections
P - Peace, war, nonviolence, Your library
Barcode
5624
Status
Available
Call number
P ELL
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