The Quakers Of Ballafayle

Josephine Kermode's own typewritten manuscript of her 1926 play about the religious persecution of the Quakers in the Isle of Man. The play concerns the oppression of William Callow of Ballafayle, Maughold, and his fellow converts to Quakerism during the 1650s and 60s. The play was written by Josephine Kermode (Cushag) when she was aged 75, and it was never published but for in the Ramsey Courier on 24 September 1926, and on 31 December 1926. This manuscript copy comes courtesy of the archives of the Manx Museum & National Trust.