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The first group, which comprises six romances, includes the works of Quaker writers Janet Whitney, Susan McCracken and Edith Maxwell. Janet Payne Whitney (1894-1974) was an English Quaker author. She moved to America in 1917 when she married George Gillett Whitney, who became Director of Fine Arts at Westtown Quaker School in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Janet Whitney taught Quakerism at the school and wrote several biographies of notable historical figures (such as Elizabeth Fry, John Woolman and Abigail Adams, among others), as well as five novels, of which Judith (1944), set in post-revolutionary Philadelphia, amply meets the requisites to be included in this book. Susan McCracken is a retired Quaker pastor at West Branch Friends Church in Iowa, part of Iowa Yearly Meeting (a group of Evangelical Friends churches in Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota), whose romances, the Friends series, published by Friends United Press, a Quaker publishing house, came out in 1994, 1995, 1997 and 2001. For her part, Edith Maxwell is a member of a more liberal group, the Amesbury Quaker Meeting (which is part of the New England Yearly Meeting); she has authored a series of so-called “cozy” mysteries, the Quaker Midwife Mysteries, the first of which, Called to Justice (2017), features the investigation of a crime and a romance between the protagonist, a Quaker midwife and sleuth, and a young doctor.