Brady, Anne M., and Brian Cleeve, editors. A Biographical Dictionary of Irish Writers. Lilliput.
Society of Friends
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Mollineux | Her version of the happy man or choice of life trope unsurprisingly specifies health, work, a house securely owned, an equall Loyal Spouse, and a friend, as ingredients for worldly happiness. She then gives... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Hannah Mary Rathbone | The editor's own poems in this volume deal mainly with her family and her Quaker
beliefs. |
| Travel | Mary Leadbeater | |
| Travel | Evelyn Sharp | 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... |
| Travel | Evelyn Sharp | 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. Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head. 201, 205-6 |
| Travel | Charlotte Brontë | CB
also had a confrontation with George Henry Lewes
. She attended the House of Commons
, the Chapel Royal
, where she saw her hero the Duke of Wellington
, and a meeting of... |
| Travel | Sophia Hume | She also travelled on a missionary journey to Holland with her fellow-QuakerCatherine Payton (later Phillips)
; they set out on 21 July 1757. Phillips, Catherine. Memoirs of the Life of Catherine Phillips. James Phillips and Son. 160-2 |
| Travel | Mary Fisher | |
| Travel | Mary Fisher | From BarbadosMF
arrived by sea at Boston, Massachusetts, with Anne Austin
, the first Quakers
to proselytise there. Larson, Rebecca. Daughters of Light. University of North Carolina Press. 232 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Travel | Mary Fisher | |
| Travel | Mary Peisley | MP
, on a journey of Quaker
ministry with her friend Catherine Payton (later Phillips)
, travelled nearly nine thousand miles to and around North America. Peisley, Mary, and Samuel Neale. Some Account of the Life and Religious Exercises of Mary Neale, formerly Mary Peisley. John Gough. 79 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Travel | Hester Biddle | HB
travelled with the more famous Mary Fisher
to preach in Newfoundland—the only Quakers
of their period to go there. Rickman, Lydia L. “Esther Biddle and Her Mission to Louis XIV”. Friends Historical Society Journal, Vol. 47 , pp. 38-45. 41-2 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Travel | Elizabeth Heyrick | EH
took to spending her summers in the countryside outside Leicester, living solely on potatoes in a shepherd's cottage with a view to experiencing the lifestyle of subsistence labourers in Ireland. 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. 53 |
| Travel | Harriet Jacobs | Back in the USA she passed the money she had raised to a Quaker
organization, but suggested that the unsettled political situation in the South made it a poor time for building. |
| Violence | Mary Fisher | Punishments laid down in 1657 for members of the Society of Friends
daring to come to Massachusetts consisted of physical violence: whippings, cropped ears, and tongues bored with a hot iron. Larson, Rebecca. Daughters of Light. University of North Carolina Press. 232n1 |
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