Society of Friends

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
death Elizabeth Ashbridge
EA died on her Quaker missionary journey around Ireland, at a Friend's house in County Carlow.
Ashbridge, Elizabeth, and Arthur Charles Curtis. Quaker Grey. Astolat Press.
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death Dorothy White
DW died of a fever in London, according to early records, not long after her last published appeal to Quakers not to forget their heroic and radical past.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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.
death Elizabeth Hooton
Her death was reported to the Society of Friends in England by James Lancaster , who provided a loving presence for her at the end.
Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. University of California Press.
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death Kathleen E. Innes
KEI was buried in the churchyard of St Peter's Church, St Mary Bourne, Hampshire. After the funeral, the Society of Friends held a short service at the graveside, at which George, her husband of...
death Anne Conway
More commented, I perceive and bless God for it, that my Lady Conway was my Lady Conway to her Last Breath.
Conway, Anne et al. The Conway Letters. Editor Hutton, Sarah, Clarendon Press.
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As a Quaker she wrote a codicil to her will, revoking her order...
Cultural formation Mary Penington
MP and her second husband made the momentous conversion to Quakerism , though the mediation of two Friends named Thomas Curtis and William Simpson .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Cultural formation Sarah Grand
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...
Cultural formation Eleanor Rathbone
ER came from a long-established English family settled in Liverpool, with a tradition of industrialism, philanthropy, high culture, Liberalism, and Dissent (either Quaker or Unitarian ).
Cultural formation Valentine Ackland
VA was accepted as a member of the Society of Friends ; she remained a Quaker during the remaining two months of her life.
Harman, Claire. Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Biography. Chatto and Windus.
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Cultural formation Isabella Ormston Ford
She was brought up in Leeds in an English, radical Quaker family with Liberal politics who were committed to humanitarian pursuits.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
The family was of prosperous middle-class standing, but IOF was brought up with a...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Bathurst
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.
Bathurst, Elizabeth, and Anne Bathurst. An Expostulatory Appeal to the Professors of Christianity.
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Cultural formation May Drummond
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...
Cultural formation Dora Greenwell
Presumably white, DG was born into an upper-middle class family that was then comfortably off, but was financially devastated several years after her birth. Her religious allegiances present some confusion. She was brought up as...
Cultural formation Mary Leadbeater
Mary Shakleton (later ML ) was brought up in an Irish Quaker family of the middle class.
Cultural formation Barbara Blaugdone
BB was converted to Quakerism by two of the early adherents of the sect, John Audland and John Camm .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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