Society of Friends

In The Harlot's Vail Rent, which appeared during the same year, RT again reproved Elizabeth Atkinson for leaving the Society of Friends and switching to the opposite side in printed controversy.

AT is said to have spoken a series of doggerel verses, many of them directed against the Quakers , which an amanuensis took down from her lips.

She experienced a spiritual awakening after hearing a sermon by Hugh Peter when she was about nineteen, then in 1650 joined the Baptist congregation of John Simpson . Later she moved to the sect of...

This offers another narrative of AT 's falling into a trance, uttering prophecies, and foiling attempts to interrupt her (this time by Quaker men) by singing over and through them. She presents herself as a...

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 . If it had not been...

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 .

MS seems also to have reacted against her mother's inculcation of the hellfire beliefs of the particularly harsh brand of Presbyterianism associated with the Wee Free or Free Church of Scotland . As an...

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.

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.

ES was one of the best-known Quaker pamphleteers and religious autobiographers of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century. She was also known in her own localities as an outstanding preacher.

William Tayler, Elizabeth's father, was deeply religious. Elizabeth later cherished the memory of his piety, and regarded his words, There is a day coming wherein truth will gloriously break forth, as a prophecy of the...

A year later she was still seeking a mentor; but in due course she joined the Society of Friends . After she was well established in her faith, she retained the habit of retiring alone...

They had known each other as students at Birmingham Art School, and met again in 1907 when he designed the decor for a special dinner which CS gave at the Lyceum Club .

The Emotions of Martha is a religious novel, in that Martha Spence's spiritual and emotional development run side by side. At the outset she feels certain that she has a remarkable artistic talent (her subjects...

The protagonist and letter-writer, Samuel Pumphrey, is a a Quaker clerk, puritan, provincial and utterly inartistic, as well as initially self-righteous. Before the story begins he was saving money to marry his beloved...