Society of Friends

She was born into the English middle class. Her mother had been a Quaker , who was disowned by the Friends on her marriage to a non-Quaker, but received back into the Society after the...

MP came from the English middle class, and was born into the Anglican church. After an early disregard for religion, then a long period of spiritual struggle, she became a Quaker .

Born in the yeoman class, she was brought up an Anglican . In youth and for years after her marriage she felt spiritually lost, as a ship without an anchor among the merciless waves.

She was baptised an Anglican , and her Anglican family disowned her when she joined the Society of Friends . Her conversion, which made her the first Londoner to join the Quakers, probably happened around...

VA was accepted as a member of the Society of Friends ; she remained a Quaker during the remaining two months of her life.

She was brought up in Leeds in an English, radical Quaker family with Liberal politics who were committed to humanitarian pursuits. The family was of prosperous middle-class standing, but IOF was brought up with a...

Though not an active member of the Church of England , SG did admire the Church and its role in British culture. By her late adulthood, however, she also developed an interest in certain tenets...

MS seems also to have reacted against her mother's inculcation of the hellfire beliefs of the particularly harsh brand of Presbyterianism associated with the Wee Free or Free Church of Scotland . As an...

Born English and white, to a leading family in a southern city of colonial America, Sophia descended through her mother from a family of Quaker heritage. Brought up in her father's Anglican religion, she for...

As a child, VA was a fervent Anglo-Catholic, following her mother's example. Later in life she became a Roman Catholic , struggled with her Catholicism, and eventually became a Quaker .

The Ford family did not conform to the stricter rules of the Quaker denomination, and Isabella and her siblings were allowed to dance, paint, play instruments, and sing. The children also developed strong senses of...

MAK thought that the existential angst she suffered during her childhood was unique until she read Margaret Fuller 's Memoirs. She felt her unhappiness as a child and young woman was good for...

Born an English middle-class Quaker , she emigrated, probably as an adolescent, and lived her mature life as an American.

It sounds as if EB 's parents were English Quakers of the rising London middle class. In her first publication she wrote that God called her by his grace even in my tender Years.

In 1759 MD sought official permission from the Society of Friends to travel to America and preach there. Permission was denied by William Miller of Edinburgh, and this seems to have precipitated a movement by...