Zealous: A Darker Side to the Quakers

By Erica Canela

by Kate Macdonald 28th November 2025

Erica Canela’s book shows that she is fluent in Quaker language and mores, which many historians are not. This fluency enables her to produce sound interpretations of a range of extracts from Minutes and seventeenth-century Quaker writings, which she quotes in this history of early Worcestershire and Herefordshire Friends.