Judith Boulbie

Judith Boulbie (c. 1667-1607/8) was a Quaker writer, and her main body of work was texts of warning and admonition. A resident of Yorkshire, she was once imprisoned in York Castle over her refusal to pay the tithe tax. Active in her local Quaker meeting throughout the 1690s, she was part of a relatively small group of women who signed Epistles that were issued from the York Women’s Meeting in 1690, 1692, 1696 and 1698. These texts primarily outline the Women’s Meeting’s changing agenda, as they responded to the various priorities that Quakers were facing. A significant part of her work is lost because Quaker censors did not share her vision, and refused to publish her work.