a number of years, she continued to take an active part in the affairs of the Society including the changes in the 1690s following partial legal tolerance of Quakers, when she was well into her eighties. In the last decade of her life, she firmly opposed the effort of her fellow believers in Lancashire to maintain certain traditional Quaker standards of conduct (for example, in matters of dress). She died aged 87, on the 23rd of April 1702. She was buried in an unmarked grave in the Society of Friends' burial ground at Sunbrick, to the south of Birkrigg Common. The Margaret Fell room at Friends House, London, UK is named after her. In literature Margaret Fell's meeting with George Fox and her subsequent conversion are the subject of the first part of the novel The Peaceable Kingdom by Jan de Hartog. She was the author (or co-author) of at least 23 works in total, mostly in the form of short pamphlets including, False Prophets, Antichrists, Deceivers. All three were written shortly after her conversion to Quakerism in 1655. Some of her more substantial works—including A Call to the Universall Seed of God (1665), Womens Speaking Justified (1666; second edition, 1667), and A Touch-Stone: or, A Perfect Tryal by the Scriptures (1667)—were written during the period of her imprisonment in Lancaster Castle (1664–68). Following her death, several of her works were collected together and published as A Brief Collection of Remarkable Passages and Occurrences (1710). Despite its 535 pages, this collection is nevertheless incomplete and includes only a small sample of letters. Her works are now available in their original form in online databases such as Early English Books Online, or in selective modern anthologies such as Wallace (1992), Booy (2004), Garman et al (1996), and Donawerth & Lush (1996). Elsa F. Glines has published 164 of Fell’s surviving letters in her collection The Letters of Margaret Fell (2003). References Further reading Donawerth, Jane and Rebecca M. Lush, eds. 2018. Margaret Fell, Women's Speaking Justified and Other Pamphlets. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Gill, Catie, Women in the Seventeenth-Century Quaker Community: A Literary Study of Political Identities, 1650–1700, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. External links Swarthmoor Hall Website An abstract of the life of Margaret Fell 1614 births 1702 deaths Converts to Quakerism English Christian theologians English Quakers Lay theologians Quaker theologians Quaker writers English rhetoricians People from Dalton-in-Furness English