Dora Wilson Collection

Dora (neé Bieneman) Wilson (1900-1953) was one of the Quaker women interested in psychology who helped found the Friends Conference on Religion and Psychology (FCRP) during the Second World War in 1943.  Dora chaired FCRP from 1950 until her death from leukemia in 1953.  During the 1930s to the 1950s when she was active in FCRP and at the Pendle Hill Retreat Center in Wallingford, Pennsylvania, she wrote two Pendle Hill Pamphlets – #4 – The Totalitarian Claim of the Gospels (1939) and #35 – The Self, to the Self (1947).  In 1956, her husband, Robert Z. Wilson (1901-1990) gifted FCRP with books from his late wife’s personal library.  This donation formed the nucleus of what is now a more than 2,000 item collection.  As a fitting memorial to the lively spirit and keen interests of Wilson’s late wife, the library was named the Dora Wilson Collection (DWC). It is now on deposit with the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Library in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and materials can be borrowed by FCRP members. 

 

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PYM Library volunteer staff:

Joan Broadfield, Jan Huizinga, Jeff Keith, Rita Varley, CPMM volunteers

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