by Jo Hodgkin | Mar 6, 2023 | Quakers in Love
A few days ago a friend sent me a photograph of a small watercolour, painted almost 200 years ago. He wrote ‘I have been given a floral watercolour miniature from my aunt Rachel’s house on which she noted on the back that it was painted by Sarah Rickman in 1830....
by Jo Hodgkin | Feb 24, 2023 | Quakers in Love
When young Thomas Rickman boarded the London to Liverpool coach on a dark December morning 1807, he faced an instant dilemma. What words should he use? Did he greet his fellow travellers as ‘you’? Or ‘thee’ and ‘thou’? His allegiance to the Society of Friends dictated...
