Peisley, Mary, and Samuel Neale. Some Account of the Life and Religious Exercises of Mary Neale, formerly Mary Peisley. John Gough.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Peisley | The letter pulls no punches, enumerating the causes for the bad state of the Society of Friends
in Virginia, which the writers say has given them much pain. They anatomise the exceedingly low state... |
Occupation | Mary Peisley | |
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/. |
Material Conditions of Writing | Mary Penington | MP
, already securely a Quaker
, wrote her first autobiographical text: A Brief Account of Some of My Exercises from My Childhood . . .. Skidmore, Gil, and Mary Penington. “Preface”. Experiences in the Life of Mary Penington, edited by Norman Penney and Norman Penney, Friends Historical Society, p. vii - xvii. ix |
Author summary | Mary Penington | |
Cultural formation | Mary Penington | |
Textual Production | Mary Penington | MP
's surviving letters in general concern themselves with practical and ideological issues in the Society of Friends
. She strongly supports the practice of separate women's meetings. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Penington | Here she justifies her financial dealings and defends herself against charges of having sought to evade the fines and imprisonment meted out to Quakers
: the implication of these charges was that she and her... |
Textual Production | Mary Penington | MP
's manuscripts survive at Friends House in London (headquarters of the Society of Friends
) and in other Quaker archives. A body of critical work is accumulating around her, and her writing is now... |
Cultural formation | Catherine Phillips | |
Publishing | Catherine Phillips | |
Author summary | Catherine Phillips | |
Cultural formation | Catherine Phillips | She was a middle-class Englishwoman, a Quaker
both by birth and conversion. |
Occupation | Catherine Phillips | She duly took up the role of minister and missionary for the Society of Friends
. She was active in this calling over the course of her life, preaching in Britain, North America, and Holland... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Catherine Phillips | Many of the reasons cited by CP
against the Methodists were true, too, of the Anglicans: too many forms and ceremonies, use of vestments, of the communion service, of baptism by sprinkling infants. Missionaries, she... |
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