Society of Friends

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation Marie Stopes
She was born into the Scottish professional classes, with Quaker heritage on her father's side; the family left Scotland in the year of her birth.
Cultural formation Hannah Kilham
HK converted from Methodism to Quakerism , to which she had been leaning for some time; she now applied to join the monthly meeting at Balby near Doncaster.
Dickson, Mora. The Powerful Bond: Hannah Kilham 1774-1832. Dobson.
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Cultural formation Mary Penington
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 .
Cultural formation Joan Vokins
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.
Graham, Elspeth et al., editors. Her Own Life. Routledge.
216
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.
which suggests that the school where the father taught was an unpretentious one for children of the local poor.
Cultural formation Virginia Woolf
VW was the daughter not only of an educated man,
Woolf, Virginia. Three Guineas. Hogarth Press.
10
but of one of the most influential intellectuals in late Victorian England. Her family on both sides was part of the intellectual ascendancy....
Cultural formation Marie Stopes
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 .
Commire, Anne, and Deborah Klezmer, editors. Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Yorkin Publications.
Maude, Aylmer. The Authorized Life of Marie C. Stopes. Williams and Norgate.
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Cultural formation Jane Gardam
Her mother taught her to love the language of the Anglican prayer book and made her go to church (of the very HighAnglican variety). JG gave up her church-going when she was free to do...
Cultural formation Katharine Evans
KE grew up an Anglican , but was clearly a religious seeker, since she joined the Baptists , then the Independents , before becoming one of the Society of Friends very soon after its inception...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Heyrick
EH , who already dressed from choice like a Quaker, wrote to the Society of Friends about admisssion.
Aucott, Shirley. Women of Courage, Vision and Talent: lives in Leicester 1780 to 1925. Shirley Aucott.
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Cultural formation Anne Whitehead
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...
Cultural formation Anne Conway
AC became a Quaker . This at first compromised her friendship with More , but he did modify his attitude to the Society of Friends as a result of her action.
Conway, Anne et al. The Conway Letters. Editor Hutton, Sarah, Clarendon Press.
434
Conway, Anne, and Henry More. “Introduction; Editorial Materials”. The Conway Letters, edited by Sarah Hutton et al., Revised, Clarendon Press, p. vii - xix; various pages.
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Cultural formation Kathleen E. Innes
Her family was English, professional, and well-off.
Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta.
10
As an adult she became, like her husband, a Quaker
Cultural formation Ray Strachey
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 .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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