Society of Friends

Her father, Samuel Galton , had intellectual interests; he belonged to the Lunar Society . By trade he was a gunmaker, an avocation which drew some disapproval from the Society of Friends , to which...

This was seven years after they had met at AMS 's home in Utrecht, when Labadie first visited the city. The Labadists rejected the normally accepted outward forms of religious practice in...

MS grew up in a prosperous, middle-class household, in which religion was the centre of everyday life and activity. Most sources agree that her family were Protestant Dissenters.

John Taylor had been a classical tutor in the Daventry Academy and a minister in the English Presbyterian church. By the time of his marriage his search for the truth had led him to join...

MS became a Unitarian like John Taylor before she married him. It has been said that she followed him again in his further change of religious affiliation, becoming a Quaker in 1790.

After MS 's death, her husband moved to Manchester, where he opened a Quaker school. He died in 1817 at the age of sixty-four.

After seriously injuring her ankle at the age of fourteen, AS was dependent on horses for mobility for the rest of her life. Her gratitude towards these animals, coupled with the Quaker and Rousseauvian values...

Both of MS 's parents were members of the Society of Friends , as were her husband's family. She remained a Friend, or Quaker, until 1835, when she joined the Church of England after flirting...

At the age of fifteen she ceased regular study, and began reading on her own. She spent much of the time at Friends ' meetings going over passages from Byron , Southey , Moore ...

ES worked at the Quaker headquarters in postwar Berlin.

ES , with Ruth Fry and Fred Brennan , set out as members of a Quaker relief mission to visit famine areas of Russia (the Volga valley), and report both on the genuineness of...

Trained at home in prayers learned by heart, with some scope for improvising, and given a religious grounding in Anglican ism at school,ES realised that she was not an irreligious person only...

ES , who had visited Donegal in 1903, had loved it and learned a great deal about folk-dancing and songs, took her first postwar holiday in Ireland in July 1919. On 5 January...

ES attended the second congress of the International Committee of Women for Permanent Peace , which was held at Zurich on 12-17 May 1919 (and which gave the organization its lasting name of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

At the end of her first day in BuzulukES felt that a corpse lying face down in the snow was the happiest thing she had seen all day. Within only a few days...