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.
Society of Friends
Connections
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Cultural formation | Joan Whitrow | JW
, a Londoner with possible Welsh heritage, was a restless seeker after religious truth, apparently throughout her life. She sometimes dressed in sackcloth and ashes as a mark of penitence, for as much as... |
Cultural formation | Anne Audland | |
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. 21 |
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 | Hannah Kilham | |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Stirredge | ES
says the Lord began to work in her heart, preparing a conversion experience, when the QuakersJohn Audland
and John Camm
shamed her about her fine clothes. Stirredge, Elizabeth. Strength in Weakness Manifest. J. Sowle. 15 |
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. 42 Beale, Catherine Hutton, editor. Catherine Hutton and Her Friends. Cornish Brothers. 195 |
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. |
Cultural formation | Mary Scott | 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. |
Cultural formation | Jane Gardam | Her mother taught her to love the language of the Anglican prayer book and made her go to church (of the very HighAnglican
variety). JG
gave up her church-going when she was free to do... |
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. 121 |
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 | Eleanor Rathbone | |
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. xii |
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