Society of Friends

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
death Kathleen E. Innes
KEI was buried in the churchyard of St Peter's Church, St Mary Bourne, Hampshire. After the funeral, the Society of Friends held a short service at the graveside, at which George, her husband of...
death Anne Conway
More commented, I perceive and bless God for it, that my Lady Conway was my Lady Conway to her Last Breath.
Conway, Anne et al. The Conway Letters. Editor Hutton, Sarah, Clarendon Press.
451
As a Quaker she wrote a codicil to her will, revoking her order...
death Elizabeth Ashbridge
EA died on her Quaker missionary journey around Ireland, at a Friend's house in County Carlow.
Ashbridge, Elizabeth, and Arthur Charles Curtis. Quaker Grey. Astolat Press.
83-4
death Dorothy White
DW died of a fever in London, according to early records, not long after her last published appeal to Quakers not to forget their heroic and radical past.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
death Elizabeth Hooton
Her death was reported to the Society of Friends in England by James Lancaster , who provided a loving presence for her at the end.
Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. University of California Press.
130
Cultural formation Katharine Evans
KE grew up an Anglican , but was clearly a religious seeker, since she joined the Baptists , then the Independents , before becoming one of the Society of Friends very soon after its inception...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Heyrick
EH , who already dressed from choice like a Quaker, wrote to the Society of Friends about admisssion.
Aucott, Shirley. Women of Courage, Vision and Talent: lives in Leicester 1780 to 1925. Shirley Aucott.
121
Cultural formation Anne Conway
AC became a Quaker . This at first compromised her friendship with More , but he did modify his attitude to the Society of Friends as a result of her action.
Conway, Anne et al. The Conway Letters. Editor Hutton, Sarah, Clarendon Press.
434
Conway, Anne, and Henry More. “Introduction; Editorial Materials”. The Conway Letters, edited by Sarah Hutton et al., Revised, Clarendon Press, p. vii - xix; various pages.
xii
Cultural formation Kathleen E. Innes
Her family was English, professional, and well-off.
Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta.
10
As an adult she became, like her husband, a Quaker
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...
Cultural formation Jane Gardam
Her mother taught her to love the language of the Anglican prayer book and made her go to church (of the very HighAnglican variety). JG gave up her church-going when she was free to do...
Cultural formation Priscilla Wakefield
She came from a distinguished English Quaker family of the middle class.
Cultural formation Elizabeth Heyrick
She was born a Dissenter and until her marriage attended the Presbyterian church in East Bond Street, Leicester. John Wesley visited the Coltman household during her youth. Later, during her widowhood, she became a Quaker .
Beale, Catherine Hutton, editor. Catherine Hutton and Her Friends. Cornish Brothers.
61
Aucott, Shirley. Women of Courage, Vision and Talent: lives in Leicester 1780 to 1925. Shirley Aucott.
121
Cultural formation Mary Linskill
Seventeenth-century Linskills were active in the Society of Friends and in local trade.
Quinlan, David, and Arthur Frederick Humble. Mary Linskill: The Whitby Novelist. Horne and Son.
5-6
Mary Jane was strongly religious. Stamp relays a story of her mother not only frightening her with stories about hell, but...
Cultural formation Dorothy White
She was a presumably English Quaker ; nothing is known of her social background. By the end of her life she held millenarian beliefs.

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