Daisy Newman (1904–1994) was a writer born in Britain to American parents.
Biography
Newman was educated at
Radcliffe College
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,
Barnard College, and
Oxford University. She wrote novels and non-fiction about
Quakers (the Society of Friends) in America. She married
George Selleck
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late in life. Both were elders at a Friends Meeting in
Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Newman's novels include: ''Now That April's There'' (1945), ''Diligence in Love'' (1951), ''The Autumn's Brightness'' (1955), ''I Take Thee, Serenity'' (1975), ''Indian Summer of the Heart'' (1982), and ''A Golden String'' (1986). She wrote a history of
American Quakers entitled ''A Procession of Friends''. Published in 1972, it is about the active position of Friends in opposing
slavery, in relation with the
native peoples of North America
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, in opposing war and
capital punishment, and in supporting the
humane treatment of the mentally ill
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and
prisoners
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...
.
See also
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Testimony of equality
External links
Daisy Newman reflects on the novel as a medium for exploring the human conditioninterviewed on public radio by David Freudberg
1904 births
1994 deaths
Radcliffe College alumni
Barnard College alumni
American Quakers
20th-century American novelists
American women novelists
20th-century American women writers
American women non-fiction writers
20th-century American non-fiction writers
20th-century Quakers
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