Society of Friends

ALW was brought as a Quaker . Both her parents were members of the Society of Friends , to which her family had belonged for generations. They were also proud of their Welsh ancestry.

MS grew up in a prosperous, middle-class household, in which religion was the centre of everyday life and activity. Most sources agree that her family were Protestant Dissenters.

BB became something of a recluse in Philadelphia. According to her niece Ann Bolton, she was prone to reading the Bible with the intention of finding fault with it, and yet more shockingly sometimes...

AO , who had left the Unitarian church in 1814 and taken the decision to convert to Quakerism, had her application to join the Society of Friends accepted.

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...

She came from an upper middle-class business family whose background included Quaker and Anglican elements. She staunchly upheld the class system, identifying herself with the upper classes. As an adult, she assumed an anti-suffrage stance...

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...

SH , religiously awakened by a dangerous brush with smallpox, converted from Anglicanism and joined the Society of Friends .

HC was an Evangelical, and may have been a Quaker or a Methodist .

Born into an upwardly-mobile Scottish bourgeois family and brought up in the Church of Scotland , MD was about twenty-one when she left the church, gave up their Society and Ceremonies (without, she wrote indignantly...

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...

MF and her family were converted to Quakerism by George Fox .

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...

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.

She came from a cultured, financially comfortable middle-class but Unitarian English family. Her class status meant that even after she converted from Dissent to Quakerism , her attitudes remained worldly in comparison with those...