On speaking terms: Joanna Hodgkin travels with Thomas Rickman
‘To be a Quaker in the early nineteenth century was to be “other”.’
One dark December morning in 1807, when young Thomas Rickman boarded the London to Liverpool coach, he faced an immediate dilemma. What words should he use? Should he greet his fellow travellers as ‘You’? Or ‘Thee’ and ‘Thou’?
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