Society of Friends

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation Rosemary Sutcliff
RS was white and English. She wrote that she came of a dynasty of doctors on both sides, with a scattering of farmers and merchants—the latter mostly Quakers .
Sutcliff, Rosemary. Blue Remembered Hills. The Bodley Head, 1983.
5
If it had not been...
Cultural formation Mary Peisley
MP regretted the passing of the days when the Friends had been, although persecuted, more steady, pure, and active in their faith. In her husband's words: She mourned for the obvious declension of our society...
Cultural formation May Drummond
MD attended the yearly meeting of the Society of Friends in Edinburgh with about thirty young women of her circle, apparently out of a joking spirit of curiosity.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Story, Thomas. The Life of Thomas Story. Isaac Thompson, 1747.
714
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, 1709.
5
The smallpox renewed these religious terrors. She had thrown them...
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, 1990.
Cultural formation Ray Strachey
Born into the English professional class, RS related closely to her American forebears. She and her sister were baptised as Catholics but brought up as Quakers .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Cultural formation May Drummond
William Miller sent MD a letter on behalf of the Edinburgh Meeting of the Society of Friends which constructively dismissed her from the Society.
Reilly, Matthew. “The Life and Literary Fictions of May Drummond, Quaker Female Preacher”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.
28
, No. 2, Nov. 2015, pp. 287-12.
309-10
Cultural formation Bathsheba Bowers
After her move to Philadelphia, BB attended Quaker meetings regularly, but without recovering the sweetness her soul had felt at her first conversion. She did not confide her religious difficulties, but kept them to herself...
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 Mary Penington
MP and her second husband made the momentous conversion to Quakerism , though the mediation of two Friends named Thomas Curtis and William Simpson .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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 Winifred Peck
WP writes about her Quaker forebears, of great-grandparents who lived in middle-class comfort in villages since swallowed by urban encroachment.
Peck, Winifred. Home for the Holidays. Faber and Faber, 1955.
19-20
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.
qtd. in
Daniel, Helen. Liars: Australian New Novelists. Penguin, 1988.
272
She spoke German at home with her family until the age of...
Cultural formation May Drummond
The Gracechurch Street, London, Meeting of the Society of Friends decided to expel MD from the Society.
Reilly, Matthew. “The Life and Literary Fictions of May Drummond, Quaker Female Preacher”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.
28
, No. 2, Nov. 2015, pp. 287-12.
306, 310
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...

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.
Bracken, James K., and Joel Silver, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 170. Gale Research, 1996.
254-5
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

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, 1701.
49
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.
Bracken, James K., and Joel Silver, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 170. Gale Research, 1996.
249-50

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 .
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
53, 145-6

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.
Bracken, James K., and Joel Silver, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 170. Gale Research, 1996.
170: 253

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.
Bracken, James K., and Joel Silver, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 170. Gale Research, 1996.
170: 251

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.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

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.
Hans, Nicholas A. New Trends in Education in the Eighteenth Century. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1951.
251
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, 1990.

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.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.

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...

Women writers item

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.
Womens Quarterly Meeting for the County of York (Society of Friends),. An Epistle from the Womens Quarterly Meeting for the County of York. James Phillips, 1782.
title-page

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.
Dickson, Mora. The Powerful Bond: Hannah Kilham 1774-1832. Dobson, 1980.
90

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 .
Walvin, James. Black Ivory: A History of British Slavery. Howard University Press, 1994.
xii
Bayly, Christopher Alan. Atlas of the British Empire. Facts on File, 1989.
83
Walvin, James et al. “Ignatius Sancho: The Man and His Times”. Ignatius Sancho: An African Man of Letters, National Portrait Gallery, 1997, pp. 93-113.
109
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
under Wilberforce

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