Arts Articles
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Harriet Beecher Stowe: creator of America’s most influential novel
‘If I could use my pen as you can, I would write something that would make this whole nation feel what an accursed thing slavery is,’ Harriet Beecher Stowe’s sister wrote in a letter. These words proved prophetic when Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin was published in 1852. The impact… -
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The death of innocence
Melakhov walked to and fro about his squeaky parquet floor. The sweat was pouring down his forehead, and his eyes were randomly and hastily roving from one object in the room to another – yet they kept returning to that old golden clock that hung oh so grandly above his…
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In a young time
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Vegetation III
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Harmonies and correspondence
In his exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery in September, Turner Prize-winning artist Wolfgang Tillmans featured a newsletter from Quaker Social Action. Rowena Loverance went to investigate: RL: So what’s this about you and the Quakers then? -
Hands
This poem appears in The Losing Game: i.m. UA Fanthorpe (22.07.29 –28.04.09) by RV Bailey. Published by Mariscat Press 2010. ISBN: 978 0 946588 54 1. £4. It is available from the Quaker Bookshop. -
The Word
The most famous recent example of a ‘miracle’ play was Dennis Potter’s Brimstone and Treacle; it was so distasteful that the BBC kept it under wraps for twenty years. A young girl, comatose as a result of a road accident, was apparently cured by an act of rape performed by…
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Margaret of Swarthmoor
The first reading of ‘Margaret of Swarthmoor’, a new play by Kirsten Ebsen, took place at Oxford Quaker Meeting House on 12 September. The narrative is held by ‘Older Margaret’ who, looking back on the previous forty-five years of her life, recalls events that happened. Kirsten Ebsen spoke to The…
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Did you find God in the garden?
If Wordsworth had stood up in a Meeting for Worship and ministered about ‘a host of dancing daffodils’, would he have been accused of ‘daffodil ministry’? When we use this term in a negative way, do we mean that the ministry is predictable? Words about the natural world, as with…
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