Peck, Winifred. Home for the Holidays. Faber and Faber.
19-20
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Cultural formation | Elizabeth Ashbridge | She had a final struggle to undertake before, while visiting her Quaker relatives at Philadelphia, she finally humbled her pride by joining the Society of Friends
, which she had for so long despised... |
Cultural formation | Anna Sewell | After seriously injuring her ankle at the age of fourteen, AS
was dependent on horses for mobility for the rest of her life. Her gratitude towards these animals, coupled with the Quaker
and Rousseauvian
values... |
Cultural formation | L. S. Bevington | She was born into a white and wealthy English family. It had Quaker
roots on both sides, but there are questions about whether or not she was brought up in the Society of Friends. The... |
Cultural formation | Mary Agnes Hamilton | |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Stirredge | A year later she was still seeking a mentor; but in due course she joined the Society of Friends
. After she was well established in her faith, she retained the habit of retiring alone... |
Cultural formation | Margaret Fell | |
Cultural formation | Mary Mollineux | |
Cultural formation | Winifred Peck | |
Cultural formation | Hannah Mary Rathbone | |
Cultural formation | Anne Audland | AA
and her first husband, John Audland
, were converted to Quakerism
by George Fox
. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
Cultural formation | Anne Docwra | Born into an English gentry family, AD
was an Anglican
during the Interregnum, when Anglicans were persecuted and reduced to holding their services in field conventicles. Docwra, Anne. The Second Part of an Apostate-Conscience Exposed. 21 |
Cultural formation | Jessie Fothergill | JF
's father, a former Quaker
, was cast out by the Society of Friends
when he married an Anglican
wife. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Scholar Helen Debenham
notes, citing correspondence with Ian Fell
, who is writing a... |
Cultural formation | Mary Sewell | Both of MS
's parents were members of the Society of Friends
, as were her husband's family. She remained a Friend, or Quaker, until 1835, when she joined the Church of England
after flirting... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Heyrick | EH
became a Quaker
, and began to dress in plain Quaker style. Corfield, Kenneth. “Elizabeth Heyrick: Radical Quaker”. Religion in the Lives of English Women, 1760-1930, edited by Gail Malmgreen, Indiana University Press, pp. 41-67. 42 Beale, Catherine Hutton, editor. Catherine Hutton and Her Friends. Cornish Brothers. 195 |
Cultural formation | Isabella Lickbarrow | Her family were Quakers
, said to be in humble life, Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
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