Drummond, May. To the Meeting assembled in the Chamber at Gracechurch-street.
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Textual Production | May Drummond | MD
, travelling in Devon, preached a sermon about the Inner Light; the manuscript, now in the library of Friends' House
in London, is entitled May Drummond's Account of Conscience and Account of... |
Material Conditions of Writing | May Drummond | Disowned by the Society of Friends
in both Edinburgh and London, MD
issued a self-defensive broadsheet: To the Meeting Assembled in the Chamber at Gracechurch-Street, which appears to be her final publication. Drummond, May. To the Meeting assembled in the Chamber at Gracechurch-street. title-page Reilly, Matthew. “The Life and Literary Fictions of May Drummond, Quaker Female Preacher”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol. 28 , No. 2, pp. 287-12. 310 and n57 |
Cultural formation | May Drummond | Born into an upwardly-mobile Scottish bourgeois family and brought up in the Church of Scotland
, MD
was about twenty-one when she left the church, gave up their Society and Ceremonies (without, she wrote indignantly... |
Occupation | May Drummond | She was called to the ministry around 1734, which, Thomas Story reported, caused renewed pain to her family. Story, Thomas. 714 |
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... |
Textual Features | May Drummond | MD
expatiates on the internal Dictates of the Holy Spirit, Drummond, May. Internal Revelation the Source of Saving Knowledge. i |
Cultural formation | May Drummond | MD
attended the yearly meeting of the Society of Friends
in Edinburgh with about thirty young women of her circle, apparently out of a joking spirit of curiosity. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Story, Thomas. 714 |
Cultural formation | May Drummond | William Miller
sent MD
a letter on behalf of the Edinburgh Meeting of the Society of Friends
which constructively dismissed her from the Society. Reilly, Matthew. “The Life and Literary Fictions of May Drummond, Quaker Female Preacher”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol. 28 , No. 2, pp. 287-12. 309-10 |
Residence | George Egerton | |
Cultural formation | Sarah Stickney Ellis | |
Education | Sarah Stickney Ellis | She later spent the years 1813-16 at a Quaker
school at Ackworth. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Production | Olaudah Equiano | Equiano presumably had a hand in composing an address to London Quakers from Africans living in the city, which he and others presented in October 1785. The address thanks Quaker Gentlemen for the publication of... |
Textual Production | Katharine Evans | On the same occasion Sarah Chevers
wrote a similar letter to her husband and children, and both women wrote other letters addressed both to individuals and to groups of Friends
with a capital F. They... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Katharine Evans | The reprintings show the impact that this text had on contemporary Quakers
. Anthologists Elspeth Graham
, Elaine Hobby
, Hilary Hinds
, and Helen Wilcox
call it as much a text of love as of resistance. Graham, Elspeth et al., editors. Her Own Life. Routledge. 119 |
Author summary | Katharine Evans | KE
was a Quaker
minister and missionary who, together with her companion Sarah Chevers
, published in 1662 an important pamphlet detailing their experience in prison in Malta, together with their spiritual experiences, prophecies... |
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