Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Society of Friends
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | May Drummond | MD
attended the yearly meeting of the Society of Friends
in Edinburgh with about thirty young women of her circle, apparently out of a joking spirit of curiosity. Story, Thomas. 714 |
Cultural formation | Katharine Bruce Glasier | Katharine Conway, later KBG
, was born to an English, white, minister's family, who considering their middle-class status were relatively poor. She was the product of her parents' views on equality of educational opportunities for... |
Cultural formation | Hannah Kilham | She was brought up as an Anglican
, but converted first to Wesleyan Methodism
(in which her mother had shown some interest) and later to Quakerism
. |
Cultural formation | Deborah Norris Logan | Her family were Quakers
, but wealthy ones, leaders too in the political life of Pennsylvania at the time that the British American colonies were becoming the United States. |
Cultural formation | Mary Howitt | |
Cultural formation | Iris Murdoch | IM
was born Irish but grew up in England from babyhood, with holidays in Ireland. Her mother's family, with a history as Anglo-Irish adherents of the Church of Ireland
, had come down in the... |
Cultural formation | May Drummond | William Miller
sent MD
a letter on behalf of the Edinburgh Meeting of the Society of Friends
which constructively dismissed her from the Society. Reilly, Matthew. “The Life and Literary Fictions of May Drummond, Quaker Female Preacher”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol. 28 , No. 2, pp. 287-12. 309-10 |
Cultural formation | Catherine Phillips | |
Cultural formation | Bathsheba Bowers | |
Cultural formation | Anna Trapnel | 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... |
Cultural formation | May Drummond | The Gracechurch Street, London, Meeting of the Society of Friends
decided to expel MD
from the Society. Reilly, Matthew. “The Life and Literary Fictions of May Drummond, Quaker Female Preacher”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol. 28 , No. 2, pp. 287-12. 306, 310 |
Cultural formation | Katharine Bruce Glasier | Either KBG
had become a member of the Society of Friends
in time to send her youngest child to a Quaker school, or else the example of the school persuaded her to convert. Thompson, Laurence. The Enthusiasts. Victor Gollancz Limited. 241 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Cultural formation | Hester Biddle | |
Cultural formation | Dorothy White | She was a presumably English Quaker
; nothing is known of her social background. By the end of her life she held millenarian beliefs. |
Cultural formation | Bathsheba Bowers | 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, Mulford, Carla et al., editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Gale Research. |
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