author
Emily Manners
Known for writing about Quaker history, this early 20th-century author is best remembered for a book on Elizabeth Hooton, one of the first women preachers in the Quaker movement. The surviving public record is quite slim, but the work itself suggests a strong interest in religious history and women's lives.
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Elizabeth Hooton : First Quaker woman preacher (1600-1672)
by Emily Manners
About the author
Emily Manners is credited as the author of Elizabeth Hooton: First Quaker Woman Preacher (1600–1672), published in 1914 with notes by Norman Penney. The book focuses on an important early Quaker figure and helps preserve the story of a woman whose ministry crossed England, Ireland, and colonial New England.
Because reliable biographical information about Manners is scarce in the sources available online, not much can be confirmed safely about her personal life. What can be said is that her known work places her among writers who helped document Quaker history in the early 20th century.
That makes her a small but interesting presence in religious and historical writing: an author whose surviving reputation rests on bringing attention to a pioneering woman preacher and the world she moved through.