Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. University of California Press.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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politics | Hester Biddle | George Fox
later reported meeting HB
in the Strand in London in about 1657, at a time when Cromwell
was persecuting Quakers
. She told him of her plan to seek out the future Charles II |
politics | Hester Biddle | By this stage in her life she had been imprisoned fourteen times over a period of fifty years. The Society of Friends
gave her permission for her journey. Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. University of California Press. 389 |
Residence | Hester Biddle | Late in life HB
lived in a room behind the Peel meeting house in London, a place set aside for poor widows, and received an allowance of five shillings a week from that congregation... |
Cultural formation | Barbara Blaugdone | BB
was converted to Quakerism
by two of the early adherents of the sect, John Audland
and John Camm
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Publishing | Barbara Blaugdone | |
Author summary | Barbara Blaugdone | |
Cultural formation | Barbara Blaugdone | She was said to have been well-connected, though whether this was through her parents or her husband is likewise unclear. Her contacts suggest that she was at least at ease with the upper classes, and... |
politics | Barbara Blaugdone | Her religious witness had, owing to the persecution of Quakers
, its political side. She was clearly a persuasive speaker, as shown by her success with the Mayors of Basingstoke and of Marlborough. She also... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Barbara Blaugdone | She was at this time probably a widow, and an active Quaker
minister and missionary. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Barbara Blaugdone | |
Author summary | Bathsheba Bowers | |
Cultural formation | Bathsheba Bowers | Born as an American colonist to parents who had themselves emigrated from England because of their Quaker
faith, she was, she says, not a gentlewoman by birth. She defined a gentlewoman as one with no... |
Cultural formation | Bathsheba Bowers | At six or seven, BB
wrote, she became fearful about her future state, and was afraid of dying because of the prospect of Hell. Bowers, Bathsheba. An Alarm Sounded. William Bradford. 5 |
politics | Bathsheba Bowers | Meanwhile the attitude of the Puritan government of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts hardened against the Society of Friends
, so that in opting for serious Quakerism BB
would be joining a persecuted minority. Mulford, Carla et al., editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Gale Research. |
Cultural formation | Bathsheba Bowers |
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