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Public Universal Friend

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The Universal Friends of the Quaker Gospel

Jemima Wilkinson promoted the idea of celibacy. She argues that it is a spiritually superior state of being. The friend's faith opens the door for her female followers to kind of break out of some of the restrictions that women faced in the late 18th century.

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