Society of Friends

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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, pp. 41-67.
42
Beale, Catherine Hutton, editor. Catherine Hutton and Her Friends. Cornish Brothers.
195
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.
which suggests that the school where the father taught was an unpretentious one for children of the local poor.
Cultural formation Anna Maria van Schurman
This was seven years after they had met at AMS 's home in Utrecht, when Labadie first visited the city.
Birch, Una. Anna van Schurman: Artist, Scholar, Saint. Longmans, Green.
129, 138-9
The Labadists rejected the normally accepted outward forms of religious practice in...
Cultural formation Anne Conway
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.
Conway, Anne et al. The Conway Letters. Editor Hutton, Sarah, Clarendon Press.
434
Conway, Anne, and Henry More. “Introduction; Editorial Materials”. The Conway Letters, edited by Sarah Hutton et al., Revised, Clarendon Press, p. vii - xix; various pages.
xii
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.
10
As an adult she became, like her husband, a Quaker
Cultural formation Jane Gardam
Her mother taught her to love the language of the Anglican prayer book and made her go to church (of the very HighAnglican variety). JG gave up her church-going when she was free to do...
Cultural formation Mary Peisley
Although her parents were religious, the young MP had a disposition to keep company unrestrained by the cross of Christ. She lived for many years in disobedience to his holy will,
Peisley, Mary, and Samuel Neale. Some Account of the Life and Religious Exercises of Mary Neale, formerly Mary Peisley. John Gough.
7
repeatedly hardening her...
Cultural formation Katharine Evans
KE grew up an Anglican , but was clearly a religious seeker, since she joined the Baptists , then the Independents , before becoming one of the Society of Friends very soon after its inception...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Heyrick
EH , who already dressed from choice like a Quaker, wrote to the Society of Friends about admisssion.
Aucott, Shirley. Women of Courage, Vision and Talent: lives in Leicester 1780 to 1925. Shirley Aucott.
121
Cultural formation Anna Letitia Waring
ALW converted from the Society of Friends to Anglicanism (with her parents' consent); she was baptised into the Church of England at St Martin's Church, Winnall, near Winchester in Hampshire.
Talbot, Mary S. In Remembrance of Anna Letitia Waring. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
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Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research.
240: 306
Cultural formation Bathsheba Bowers
Born as an American colonist to parents who had themselves emigrated from England because of their Quaker faith, she was, she says, not a gentlewoman by birth. She defined a gentlewoman as one with no...
Cultural formation Mary Scott
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.
Though Anna Seward said they were Anglicans
Cultural formation Anne Conway
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
Cultural formation Mary Fisher
It is not known whether she belonged to the Church of England or some other sect before she joined the Society of Friends (in earlier 1652, along with her employers).
Peters, Kate. Print Culture and the Early Quakers. Cambridge University Press.
37
Her early conversion to...
Cultural formation Kathleen E. Innes
She had become a member of the Religious Society of Friends in the early 1920s (he had been a member when they met), and soon after moving they became active in their local meeting.

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