Society of Friends

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation Anne Docwra
Born into an English gentry family, AD was an Anglican during the Interregnum, when Anglicans were persecuted and reduced to holding their services in field conventicles.
Docwra, Anne. The Second Part of an Apostate-Conscience Exposed.
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Her husband joined the Society of Friends in...
Cultural formation Jessie Fothergill
JF 's father, a former Quaker , was cast out by the Society of Friends when he married an Anglican wife.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Scholar Helen Debenham notes, citing correspondence with Ian Fell , who is writing a...
Cultural formation Mary Penington
MP came from the English middle class, and was born into the Anglican church. After an early disregard for religion, then a long period of spiritual struggle, she became a Quaker .
Cultural formation Joan Vokins
Born in the yeoman class, she was brought up an Anglican . In youth and for years after her marriage she felt spiritually lost, as a ship without an anchor among the merciless waves.
Graham, Elspeth et al., editors. Her Own Life. Routledge.
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Cultural formation Elizabeth Heyrick
EH became a Quaker , and began to dress in plain Quaker style.
Corfield, Kenneth. “Elizabeth Heyrick: Radical Quaker”. Religion in the Lives of English Women, 1760-1930, edited by Gail Malmgreen, Indiana University Press, pp. 41-67.
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Beale, Catherine Hutton, editor. Catherine Hutton and Her Friends. Cornish Brothers.
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Cultural formation Isabella Lickbarrow
Her family were Quakers , said to be in humble life,
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.
which suggests that the school where the father taught was an unpretentious one for children of the local poor.
Cultural formation Virginia Woolf
VW was the daughter not only of an educated man,
Woolf, Virginia. Three Guineas. Hogarth Press.
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but of one of the most influential intellectuals in late Victorian England. Her family on both sides was part of the intellectual ascendancy....
Cultural formation Marie Stopes
She was born into the Scottish professional classes, with Quaker heritage on her father's side; the family left Scotland in the year of her birth.
Cultural formation Hannah Kilham
HK converted from Methodism to Quakerism , to which she had been leaning for some time; she now applied to join the monthly meeting at Balby near Doncaster.
Dickson, Mora. The Powerful Bond: Hannah Kilham 1774-1832. Dobson.
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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.
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Cultural formation Anne Whitehead
She was baptised an Anglican , and her Anglican family disowned her when she joined the Society of Friends . Her conversion, which made her the first Londoner to join the Quakers, probably happened around...
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.
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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 Marie Stopes
MS seems also to have reacted against her mother's inculcation of the hellfire beliefs of the particularly harsh brand of Presbyterianism associated with the Wee Free or Free Church of Scotland .
Commire, Anne, and Deborah Klezmer, editors. Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Yorkin Publications.
Maude, Aylmer. The Authorized Life of Marie C. Stopes. Williams and Norgate.
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Timeline

By early 1691: Tace Sowle, aged twenty-five, took over from...

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By early 1691

Tace Sowle , aged twenty-five, took over from her elderly father, Andrew , the family printing firm (which that year distributed books to 151 Quaker meetings, as well as bookshops in England, Europe, and the...

Late May or early June 1691: The Quakers, at the first of their Yearly...

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Late May or early June 1691

The Quaker s, at the first of their Yearly Meetings in London, decided to require their provincial Monthly Meetings to order one copy of each Quaker book priced at sixpence or more, and two...

1694-1706: Quaker printer Tace Sowle produced three...

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1694-1706

Quaker printer Tace Sowle produced three volumes of the works of George Fox (Quaker pioneer, husband of Margaret Fell ): his Journal, Epistles, and Gospel-Truth Demonstrated.

Probably February or March 1701: Sectarian religious writer Mary Pennyman...

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Probably February or March 1701

Sectarian religious writer Mary Pennyman having died on 14 January,
Pennyman, Mary. Some of the Letters and Papers. Editor Pennyman, John.
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her husband, John Pennyman , published Some of the Letters and Papers which were written by Mrs. Mary Pennyman, relating to An Holy and...

1701: John Tomkins published Piety Promoted, in...

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1701

John Tomkins published Piety Promoted, in a Collection of Dying Sayings of Many of the People Called Quakers, an important source for lives of both men and women.

1708: The first Quaker bibliography, John Whiting's...

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1708

The first Quaker bibliography, John Whiting's A Catalogue of Friends' Books. . . , was published by Tace Sowle .

1722: William Sewel published, through the firm...

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1722

William Sewel published, through the firm of Tace Sowle , his History of the Rise, Increase and Progress of the Christian People Called Quakers.

November 1749: The leading Quaker printer Tace Sowle (known...

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November 1749

The leading Quaker printer Tace Sowle (known as Tace Sowle Raylton since her marriage in 1706) died, a highly successful businesswoman.

1750: Samuel Bownas published A Description of...

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1750

Samuel Bownas published A Description of the Qualifications Necessary to be a Gospel Minister; Advice to Ministers and Elders among the People Called Quakers.

During the 1760s: Martha Winter (later Martha Routh, Quaker...

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During the 1760s

Martha Winter (later Martha Routh , Quaker minister and autobiographer) was principal of a girls' boarding school which the Quakers ran in Nottingham.

21 December 1772: The Narrative appeared of the life of James...

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21 December 1772

The Narrative appeared of the life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw , who died this year; he described himself on the title-page as an African Prince.

1776: Members of the Society of Friends who were...

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1776

Members of the Society of Friends who were slave-owners were ordered to free their slaves; this was two years after Quakers had been forbidden to deal with slave traders, on penalty of expulsion from the...

26-27 December 1781: The Womens Quarterly Meeting for Yorkshire...

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26-27 December 1781

The Womens Quarterly Meeting for Yorkshire was held at Leeds, at which an Epistle of general exhortation was drawn up, to be printed at London.

Later 1783: The first Anti-Slavery Committee was founded...

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Later 1783

The first Anti-Slavery Committee was founded (a precursor to the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade , composed chiefly of Quakers ) and The Case of our Fellow Creatures, the Oppressed Africans was published.

22 May 1787: The Society for the Abolition of the Slave...

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22 May 1787

The Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade was founded in London, by Granville Sharp , Thomas Clarkson , and ten more, of whom nine were Quakers .

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