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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Literary responses | Sarah Chapone | Mary Delany
, who read this work in manuscript, called it ingenious (in that word's old-fashioned meaning of learned or scholarly), but thought that the legal aspect still needed revision. |
Literary Setting | Rebecca Harding Davis | The story presents the routine of working life for Welsh immigrants to the USA; in it RHD
seeks to articulate the impact of industrialism on the proletariat. Pfaelzer, Jean. Parlor Radical: Rebecca Harding Davis and the Origins of American Social Realism. University of Pittsburgh Press. 26-7 |
Literary Setting | Edna Lyall | The story revolves around Jacobite plots and persecution of Quakers
in the period when Queen Mary II
was Regent for her husband, William
, during his absences abroad. It introduces actual characters like the former... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Amelia Opie | When she entered the Society of Friends
, AO
joined a group which was deeply suspicious of fiction and felt that writing ought to concentrate on truth-telling and moral instruction. Opie tried to conform, and... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Elizabeth Hooton | False Prophets and False Teachers Described was printed at London, bearing the authorial names of six Quakers
including EH
, Mary Fisher
, and Thomas Aldam
, all imprisoned in York Castle. Hooton's... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Amelia Opie | This was the first book that she published as a Quaker
, and to people in the Society of Friends she justified the practice of fiction by reminding them of the parables of Jesus. Though... |
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 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Barbara Blaugdone | She was at this time probably a widow, and an active Quaker
minister and missionary. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Material Conditions of Writing | Mary Fisher | |
Material Conditions of Writing | Mary Howitt | |
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 |
Occupation | May Drummond | She was called to the ministry around 1734, which, Thomas Story reported, caused renewed pain to her family. Story, Thomas. 714 |
Occupation | Kathleen E. Innes | KEI
became Secretary of the Society of Friends
' influential Peace Committee
; she remained in this position, which paid the considerable sum of £300 per year, for ten years. Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta. 93 Peace Committee Minutes, 6 May 1925. |
Occupation | Mary Peisley | |
Occupation | Evelyn Sharp |
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