A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Fisher, Mary
FISHER, MARY,
An enthusiastic English Quakeress of the seventeenth century, who travelled to Constantinople, with the intention of converting the Grand Seignior. She embarked at Smyrna in an Italian vessel for Adrianople; but her design being discovered, she was taken from the ship, and sent to Venice. This opposition only increased her zeal, and she determined to pursue her journey by land. When she reached Adrianople, she obtained an audience with Mahomet the Fourth, who, surprised at her courage, and the manner in which she addressed him, regarded her as deranged, and ordered her to be carried back to her own country in the first vessel that sailed. On her return, she was received in triumph by the Quakers, and married to one of the principal members of that sect