Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Society of Friends
Connections
Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Susanna Wright | Born an English middle-class Quaker
, she emigrated, probably as an adolescent, and lived her mature life as an American. |
Cultural formation | Ray Strachey | |
Cultural formation | Sophia Hume | SH
, religiously awakened by a dangerous brush with smallpox, converted from Anglicanism
and joined the Society of Friends
. 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. |
Cultural formation | Harriet Corp | |
Cultural formation | Evelyn Sharp | |
Cultural formation | Emilie Barrington | |
Cultural formation | Rosemary Sutcliff | |
Cultural formation | Margaret Fell | MF
and her family were converted to Quakerism
by George Fox
. Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan. x |
Cultural formation | Emma Marshall | She was born into the English middle class. Her mother had been a Quaker
, who was disowned by the Friends on her marriage to a non-Quaker, but received back into the Society after the... |
Cultural formation | Catherine Phillips | |
Cultural formation | Amelia Opie | She came from a cultured, financially comfortable middle-class but Unitarian
English family. Her class status meant that even after she converted from Dissent
to Quakerism
, Opie, Amelia. “Introduction”. Adeline Mowbray, edited by Shelley King and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, p. i - xxix. xxxviii |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Jolley | EJ
was born into the white middle class. She described the family in which she grew up ashalf-English and three-quarters Viennese. Daniel, Helen. Liars: Australian New Novelists. Penguin. 272 |
Cultural formation | May Drummond | Born into an upwardly-mobile Scottish bourgeois family and brought up in the Church of Scotland
, MD
was about twenty-one when she left the church, gave up their Society and Ceremonies (without, she wrote indignantly... |
Cultural formation | Sarah Grand | Although SG
was born in Ireland, her parents were English, stemming from propertied and professional families respectively. Memoirist Helen C. Black
described her as coming alike on each side from a race of artistic... |
Cultural formation | Valentine Ackland | VA
was accepted as a member of the Society of Friends
; she remained a Quaker
during the remaining two months of her life. Harman, Claire. Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Biography. Chatto and Windus. 293 |
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