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Society of Friends
Connections
Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Isabella Ormston Ford | |
Cultural formation | Mary Peisley | Although her parents were religious, the young MP
had a disposition to keep company unrestrained by the cross of Christ. She lived for many years in disobedience to his holy will, Peisley, Mary, and Samuel Neale. Some Account of the Life and Religious Exercises of Mary Neale, formerly Mary Peisley. John Gough. 7 |
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 | Anna Letitia Waring | ALW
converted from the Society of Friends
to Anglicanism
(with her parents' consent); she was baptised into the Church of England at St Martin's Church, Winnall, near Winchester in Hampshire. Talbot, Mary S. In Remembrance of Anna Letitia Waring. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 6 Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research. 240: 306 |
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/. |
Cultural formation | Mary Scott | MS
grew up in a prosperous, middle-class household, in which religion was the centre of everyday life and activity. Most sources agree that her family were Protestant Dissenters. Though Anna Seward
said they were Anglicans |
Cultural formation | Sophia Hume | 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... |
Cultural formation | Valentine Ackland | As a child, VA
was a fervent Anglo-Catholic, following her mother's example. Ackland, Valentine. For Sylvia: An Honest Account. Chatto and Windus. 37, 45 Mulford, Wendy. This Narrow Place. Pandora. 233 |
Cultural formation | Isabella Ormston Ford | 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... |
Cultural formation | Mary Ann Kelty | MAK
thought that the existential angst she suffered during her childhood was unique until she read Margaret Fuller
's Memoirs. Kelty, Mary Ann. Reminiscences of Thought and Feeling. W. Pickering. 134 |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Bathurst | |
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 | |
Cultural formation | Anna Letitia Waring | ALW
was brought as a Quaker
. Both her parents were members of the Society of Friends
, to which her family had belonged for generations. They were also proud of their Welsh ancestry. 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. Talbot, Mary S. In Remembrance of Anna Letitia Waring. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 4 |
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