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Travel | Mary Fisher | From BarbadosMF
arrived by sea at Boston, Massachusetts, with Anne Austin
, the first Quakers
to proselytise there. Larson, Rebecca. Daughters of Light. University of North Carolina Press. 232 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Travel | Mary Fisher | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Fisher | MF
(who had once answered a magistrate enquiring her husband's name that she had no husband but Jesus Christ) Peters, Kate. Print Culture and the Early Quakers. Cambridge University Press. 76 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Material Conditions of Writing | Mary Fisher | |
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to undertake preaching journeys abroad), remained unpublished except for some strongly politicized letters and a one-sixth...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/. |
Cultural formation | Isabella Ormston Ford | She was brought up in Leeds in an English, radical Quaker
family with Liberal
politics who were committed to humanitarian pursuits. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Cultural formation | Isabella Ormston Ford | The Ford family did not conform to the stricter rules of the Quaker
denomination, and Isabella and her siblings were allowed to dance, paint, play instruments, and sing. The children also developed strong senses of... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Isabella Ormston Ford | IOF
's father, Robert Lawson Ford
, was a solicitor and landowner, and a Quaker
who belonged to the radical wing of the Liberal Party
. He supported local Quaker MP John Bright
in his... |
politics | Isabella Ormston Ford | |
Textual Features | Margaret Forster | Carr's biscuits were a staple of British diet. The firm was started and run by one of the great Quaker
trading families, a centre of progressive employment practices and local civic responsibility. Both family and... |
Characters | Mrs E. M. Foster | 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... |
Cultural formation | Jessie Fothergill | JF
's father, a former Quaker
, was cast out by the Society of Friends
when he married an Anglican
wife. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Scholar Helen Debenham
notes, citing correspondence with Ian Fell
, who is writing a... |
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