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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Amelia Opie | The publisher was said to have offered her a thousand pounds for this novel and had gone so far as to advertise it for sale. Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research. 231 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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 | 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... |
Literary responses | Amelia Opie | Response was tepid in England. The Literary Gazette called this book by one of its long-time favourites a milk-and-water work, poised between Quakerism
and satire on the fashionable world, and more successful as morality than... |
Textual Features | Susanna Parr | To sum up, PS's text gives the impression that she had a difficult man to deal with, and one who was not slow to use her gender as a weapon against her when he saw... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eliza Parsons | Money issues arise early in this story. Mr Mead was curate to a small parish in Lincolnshire, and performed the whole duty within eight miles round, for the noble salary of thirty-five pounds a... |
Cultural formation | Winifred Peck | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Peisley | MP
was married at Mountrath to Samuel Neale
, a paper-maker who had converted to the Society of Friends
through her preaching; that very evening she addressed the assembled Friends, her guests. Peisley, Mary, and Samuel Neale. Some Account of the Life and Religious Exercises of Mary Neale, formerly Mary Peisley. John Gough. 119-20 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Production | Mary Peisley | While on her missionary trip to America, MP
wrote, jointly with Catherine Phillips
and several others, an epistle addressed to a meeting of Friends
: To the Yearly Meeting to be held at Curles for... |
Author summary | Mary Peisley | MP
was less of an author, either in spirit or practice, than her friend and associate Catherine Phillips
, yet writing was an important part of her brief but highly successful career in the mid... |
Cultural formation | Mary Peisley | She was born into the Irish cottager or labouring class and into the Society of Friends
. The family had a long tradition of Quaker belief and activism. She later observed that her father's cottage... |
Cultural formation | Mary Peisley | Although her parents were religious, the young MP
had a disposition to keep company unrestrained by the cross of Christ. She lived for many years in disobedience to his holy will, Peisley, Mary, and Samuel Neale. Some Account of the Life and Religious Exercises of Mary Neale, formerly Mary Peisley. John Gough. 7 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Peisley | |
Cultural formation | Mary Peisley | |
Occupation | Mary Peisley |
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