Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Margaret Fell | |
politics | Margaret Fell | MF
, on her first visit to London, presented the earliest formal Quaker
peace testimony to Charles II
, whom she went on to visit several times more. Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan. 136-7 Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. University of California Press. 220 |
politics | Margaret Fell | |
Textual Production | Margaret Fell | |
Textual Production | Margaret Fell | MF
composed her latest known work, An Epistle to Friends, urging the Society
not to isolate themselves from society by adopting the distinctive dress with which they nevertheless proceeded to identify themselves. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Author summary | Margaret Fell | |
Cultural formation | Margaret Fell | |
Residence | Margaret Fell | Thomas Fell's estate, Swarthmoor Hall in Lancashire, was MF
's home for most of her adult life, and has since become a shrine to the history of the Society of Friends
. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Celia Fiennes | CF
is interested less in appearances than how things work. On her first journey she made this observation of the spire of Salisbury Cathedral: being so high it appeares to us below as sharpe... |
Author summary | Mary Fisher | MF
, one of the Valiant Sixty (that is, the earliest Quakers or members of the Society of Friends
to undertake preaching journeys abroad), remained unpublished except for some strongly politicized letters and a one-sixth... |
Cultural formation | Mary Fisher | It is not known whether she belonged to the Church of England or some other sect before she joined the Society of Friends
(in earlier 1652, along with her employers). Peters, Kate. Print Culture and the Early Quakers. Cambridge University Press. 37 |
Occupation | Mary Fisher | |
politics | Mary Fisher | In Boston the two women at once fell under suspicion of being witches. They were searched for bodily marks of witchcraft (even betwixt their toes, and amongst their hair), Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Violence | Mary Fisher | Punishments laid down in 1657 for members of the Society of Friends
daring to come to Massachusetts consisted of physical violence: whippings, cropped ears, and tongues bored with a hot iron. Larson, Rebecca. Daughters of Light. University of North Carolina Press. 232n1 |
politics | Mary Fisher |
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