‘On The Duty Of A Wife.’
Book details
- Title
- ‘On The Duty Of A Wife.’
- Author
- J Harrison
- Publication year listed
- 1810
- Format
- Public domain eBook
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‘On The Duty Of A Wife.’
Author: Frederick Smith 1757-1823
Year: 1810
On the duty of a wife. - London : printed by J. Harrison, No. 6, Lancaster-Court, Strand ; and sold by Darton and Harvey, Gracechurch-Street ; and Hatchard, Piccadilly, 1810 Quaker author. An early Quaker pharmacist was Frederick Smith (1757-1823). He was sacked from the Post Office when he refused to give evidence in a robbery because of his objection to capital punishment. He returned to take over his father in law’s pharmacy business in Haymarket, London. Once the business was firmly established, Frederick Smith paid his son Edward to run it, while he retired to Croydon, devoting the rest of his life to public and benevolent objects and the affairs of the Society of Friends. Edward, doubtless as a token of gratitude and respect, commissioned his friend, the then famous artist Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786-1846), to portray his parents. The picture, The Quiet Hour, which depicts a Quaker and his wife devoutly reading the Bible by lamplight, is now in the library of the London Society of Friends (Source: Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, 1841-1991 : a political and social history by Holloway, S. W. F. (Sydney W. F.)). One of his apprentices, John Bell (1776-1849) marri