Society of Friends

BB became something of a recluse in Philadelphia. According to her niece Ann Bolton, she was prone to reading the Bible with the intention of finding fault with it, and yet more shockingly sometimes...

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...

VW was the daughter not only of an educated man, but of one of the most influential intellectuals in late Victorian England. Her family on both sides was part of the intellectual ascendancy....

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...

Mary Shakleton (later ML ) was brought up in an Irish Quaker family of the middle class.

HC was an Evangelical, and may have been a Quaker or a Methodist .

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...

ES says the Lord began to work in her heart, preparing a conversion experience, when the QuakersJohn Audland and John Camm shamed her about her fine clothes.

She came from an upper middle-class business family whose background included Quaker and Anglican elements. She staunchly upheld the class system, identifying herself with the upper classes. As an adult, she assumed an anti-suffrage stance...

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...

Both of MS 's parents were members of the Society of Friends , as were her husband's family. She remained a Friend, or Quaker, until 1835, when she joined the Church of England after flirting...

A foreword by Jalna Hanmer explains that the play addresses the early-seventeenth-century shift towards male doctors' control of women's reproduction through new technology (the introduction of forceps) and through religion (the execution of witches)...

The protagonist and letter-writer, Samuel Pumphrey, is a a Quaker clerk, puritan, provincial and utterly inartistic, as well as initially self-righteous. Before the story begins he was saving money to marry his beloved...

This book differs from Foster's first two novels, in that it is shorter (two volumes instead of three or four), not historical but rather a sentimental novel about courtship, and originally published by Minerva as...

In Dimple Hill, the middle-aged Miriam goes on a holiday in Sussex, and remains there living on the farm named in the title as a paying guest of a family of Quakers ...