Women highlighted in Maldon exhibition
An exhibition about Quaker history will put particular emphasis on Quaker women
Maldon Quakers in Essex are putting on an exhibition about the history of the Religious Society of Friends with particular emphasis on Quaker women for the town’s heritage weekend next month.
Women featured will include prison reformer Elizabeth Fry, astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Chelmsford Friend and anti-slavery and women’s suffrage campaigner Anne Knight, and Margaret Fell.
Maldon Quaker Lucy Hicks, who is memorialised on the horse trough outside All Saints’ Church, Maldon, as ‘a good mother who lived and died in this town’, is also in the exhibition. Visitors will be able to look around the 1821 Meeting house and ground in Butt Lane and talk to Maldon Friends about the Society’s faith and practice today.
The exhibition is open on 8-9 September.
