Society of Friends

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.

He was a Quaker who worked as an engraver and printer in Manchester and Belfast. He is credited with the invention of the published railway timetable. Nothing on the scale of his comprehensive railway...

AB also wanted to help after witnessing the appalling conditions in which 90,000 refugee ex-soldiers of the Spanish Republican Army were corralled behind barbed wire on an unsheltered beach in southern France, succumbing to pneumonia...

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...

It opens in Derby on 4 December 1745 with a proclamation that the Young Pretender and his army are marching on the town. (Derby was in life this army's furthest point south.) All the prosperous...

JB 's spiritual struggle dated back to his unregenerate teens. Under the influence of his first wife he began attending the establishedchurch and developed exaggerated reverence for its priests, but he later saw this...

ASB 's family background is English, middle-class, and Anglican . Initially, her mother was an atheist and her father took the children to an Anglican church, but both parents held Quaker values, and eventually they...

As Iota, KC published A Quaker Grandmother, which Gail Cunningham calls an utterly innocuous little novel.

Mary Ann Shadd came of mixed white and black (or, in her own word, colored) American heritage on both maternal and paternal sides. Her paternal great-grandfather came originally from Germany. The family was economically...

As a well-known public speaker and advocate for many causes, LOC contributed articles on a number of other topical concerns. In The Heart of Armenia, for example, she recounts her journey across Bulgaria to...

Mary Delany , who read this work in manuscript, called it ingenious (in that word's old-fashioned meaning of learned or scholarly), but thought that the legal aspect still needed revision. The book received praise from...

Comparatively little of AC 's philosophical correspondence has survived (that is, far more letters to her than from her are extant). This correspondence cover[ed] such topics as Quakerism , Familism, Behmen ism, Spinoza ...

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.

AC belonged by birth and marriage to the English upper classes, though many of her friends and associates came from signficantly lower down the social scale. Her rationalism and quietism made her an eccentric Anglican

AC corresponded with and was visited by many leading members of the Society of Friends , among them Keith , Robert Barclay , Anne and George Whitehead , Isaac Penington , William Penn , and...