Society of Friends

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Cultural formation Margaret Fell
MF and her family were converted to Quakerism by George Fox .
Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan, 1994.
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Cultural formation Hannah Mary Rathbone
This HMR came from a north-country family of Quaker origins, whose involvement in industrial manufacturing had put them squarely in the upper middle class.
Cultural formation Mary Mollineux
MM came from northern England, was presumably white, and probably sprang from the middling ranks into which she married. In religion she was a Quaker all her life, since her husband, a fellow member of...
Cultural formation Mary Penington
MP came from the English middle class, and was born into the Anglican church. After an early disregard for religion, then a long period of spiritual struggle, she became a Quaker .
Cultural formation Valentine Ackland
VA was accepted as a member of the Society of Friends ; she remained a Quaker during the remaining two months of her life.
Harman, Claire. Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Biography. Chatto and Windus, 1989.
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Cultural formation Isabella Ormston Ford
She was brought up in Leeds in an English, radical Quaker family with Liberal politics who were committed to humanitarian pursuits.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
The family was of prosperous middle-class standing, but IOF was brought up with a...
Cultural formation Hannah Kilham
HK converted from Methodism to Quakerism , to which she had been leaning for some time; she now applied to join the monthly meeting at Balby near Doncaster.
Dickson, Mora. The Powerful Bond: Hannah Kilham 1774-1832. Dobson, 1980.
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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 Anna Sewell
After seriously injuring her ankle at the age of fourteen, AS was dependent on horses for mobility for the rest of her life. Her gratitude towards these animals, coupled with the Quaker and Rousseauvian values...
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, 1986, pp. 41-67.
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Beale, Catherine Hutton, editor. Catherine Hutton and Her Friends. Cornish Brothers, 1895.
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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, 1990.
which suggests that the school where the father taught was an unpretentious one for children of the local poor.
Cultural formation Anne Whitehead
She was baptised an Anglican , and her Anglican family disowned her when she joined the Society of Friends . Her conversion, which made her the first Londoner to join the Quakers, probably happened around...
Cultural formation Rebecca Travers
She was originally a Baptist and was converted to Quakerism by James Nayler . She remained loyal to Nayler, even after he was disgraced and condemned by George Fox . RT organised the first women's...
Cultural formation Kathleen E. Innes
Her family was English, professional, and well-off.
Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta, 1995.
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As an adult she became, like her husband, a Quaker
Cultural formation Valentine Ackland
As a child, VA was a fervent Anglo-Catholic, following her mother's example.
Ackland, Valentine. For Sylvia: An Honest Account. Chatto and Windus, 1985.
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Later in life she became a Roman Catholic , struggled with her Catholicism, and eventually became a Quaker .
Mulford, Wendy. This Narrow Place. Pandora, 1988.
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