Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women
Subtitle: Global Women's Issues and Knowledge
Contributors: Cheris Kramarae (Editor); Dale Spender (Editor)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: December 2000
ISBN-13: 9780415920926
First sentence: The Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers, grew in England in the mid-seventeenth century and spread to Wales, Ireland, Scotland, the Netherlands, Germany, and the American colonies.