‘Young Quakers had the same longing to fit in with their peers as anyone else.’ Photo: Contemporary portrait of Thomas Rickman by Charles Barber.
On speaking terms: Joanna Hodgkin travels with Thomas Rickman
‘To be a Quaker in the early nineteenth century was to be “other”.’
by Joanna Hodgkin
26th August 2022
One dark December morning in 1807, when young Thomas Rickman boarded the London to Liverpool coach, he faced an immediate dilemma. What words should he use? Should he greet his fellow travellers as ‘You’? Or ‘Thee’ and ‘Thou’?
