Society of Friends

Born into the English professional class, RS related closely to her American forebears. She and her sister were baptised as Catholics but brought up as Quakers .

MD 's family background is Anglican . Initially, her mother was an atheist and her father took the children to an Anglican church, but both parents held Quaker values and eventually joined the Society of Friends

AG , a fervent Christian believer, seems to have remained in the Church of England , in which she was brought up, but her many printed pleas for religious ecumenism may have been fuelled by...

She was born a Dissenter and until her marriage attended the Presbyterian church in East Bond Street, Leicester. John Wesley visited the Coltman household during her youth. Later, during her widowhood, she became a Quaker .

Seventeenth-century Linskills were active in the Society of Friends and in local trade. Mary Jane was strongly religious. Stamp relays a story of her mother not only frightening her with stories about hell, but...

Born as an American colonist to parents who had themselves emigrated from England because of their Quaker faith, she was, she says, not a gentlewoman by birth. She defined a gentlewoman as one with no...

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

RS was white and English. She wrote that she came of a dynasty of doctors on both sides, with a scattering of farmers and merchants—the latter mostly Quakers . If it had not been...

MD attended the yearly meeting of the Society of Friends in Edinburgh with about thirty young women of her circle, apparently out of a joking spirit of curiosity.

Katharine Conway, later KBG , was born to an English, white, minister's family, who considering their middle-class status were relatively poor. She was the product of her parents' views on equality of educational opportunities for...

She was brought up as an Anglican , but converted first to Wesleyan Methodism (in which her mother had shown some interest) and later to Quakerism .

Her family were Quakers , but wealthy ones, leaders too in the political life of Pennsylvania at the time that the British American colonies were becoming the United States.

At six or seven, BB wrote, she became fearful about her future state, and was afraid of dying because of the prospect of Hell. The smallpox renewed these religious terrors. She had thrown them...

She was born into a family of Quakers . Her parents, however, were less strict in their observances than their own parents had been, and later strayed into other beliefs. Her mother dressed Anna Mary...

Trained at home in prayers learned by heart, with some scope for improvising, and given a religious grounding in Anglican ism at school,ES realised that she was not an irreligious person only...