Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Anna Trapnel | She experienced a spiritual awakening after hearing a sermon by Hugh Peter
when she was about nineteen, then in 1650 joined the Baptist
congregation of John Simpson
. Later she moved to the sect of... |
Textual Features | Anna Trapnel | |
Cultural formation | Rebecca Travers | She was originally a Baptist
and was converted to Quakerism
by James Nayler
. She remained loyal to Nayler, even after he was disgraced and condemned by George Fox
. RT
organised the first women's... |
Occupation | Rebecca Travers | RT
's visible ministry in London belongs to the years 1659-61. Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan. 141 |
Textual Production | Rebecca Travers | She spelled her name Rebecka on the former of these, but in its more conventional form on the other. The former title continues: Of That Eternal Breath begotten and brought forth not of flesh &... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rebecca Travers | The extremely long descriptive title promises that the Quaker
faith is the same believed by the holy men and women that gave forth the Scriptures. English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rebecca Travers | This tract uses verse as well as prose. A threat is embodied in its title (which is again long, though not so long as that of her previous work): things to come are here declared... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Rebecca Travers | This was designed to refute controversial texts published against Quaker
doctrine by Robert Cobbet
(A Word to the Upright, 1668) and Elizabeth Atkinson
(Breif [sic] and Plain Discovery of the Labourers in... |
Textual Production | Rebecca Travers | In The Harlot's Vail Rent, which appeared during the same year, RT
again reproved Elizabeth Atkinson
for leaving the Society of Friends
and switching to the opposite side in printed controversy. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rose Tremain | This was Tremain's longest novel so far, and her first use in full-length fiction of the seventeenth century, which had featured in several of her stories. Her protagonist-narrator, Robert Merivel, is a man of expensive... |
Residence | Joan Vokins | Charney Manor, at Charney Bassett, the village where JV
grew up, is now (2016) a conference centre owned by the Society of Friends
, which especially welcomes delegates involved in conflict resolution and international... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Joan Vokins | When JV
began to think about converting to Quakerism, her immediate family opposed it. In the end, however, they all followed her into the Society of Friends
. She later wrote that her relationship with... |
Occupation | Joan Vokins | Not long after her conversion JV
became a Quaker minister and missionary. She and her sister Jane Sansom
became local leaders of the movement, strong supporters of the women's meetings which in the later 1670s... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Joan Vokins | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Joan Vokins | This work is prefaced by testimonies including one by Theophila Townsend
. Her account of her ministry tells of physical suffering andurance: as JV
wrote not long before she died, how many hundred Miles have... |
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