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Cultural formation | Carol Shields | |
politics | Evelyn Sharp | ES
attended the second congress of the International Committee of Women for Permanent Peace
, which was held at Zurich on 12-17 May 1919 (and which gave the organization its lasting name of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom |
Occupation | Evelyn Sharp | At the end of her first day in BuzulukES
felt that a corpse lying face down in the snow was the happiest thing she had seen all day. John, Angela V. Evelyn Sharp: Rebel Woman, 18691955. Manchester University Press. 132 |
politics | Evelyn Sharp | Both kept up their political activity during the 1930s with active membership of such organizations as the National Council for Civil Liberties
(whose first executive committee Sharp sat on) and of PEN International
. Even... |
Textual Features | Evelyn Sharp | The diaries cover holidays, travel, her famine relief work in Russia (briefly excerpted in a pamphlet printed by the Friends
Relief Committee), and in Britain the General Strike and civilian life during the Second World... |
Occupation | Evelyn Sharp | |
Travel | Evelyn Sharp | ES
, with Ruth Fry
and Fred Brennan
, set out as members of a Quaker
relief mission to visit famine areas of Russia (the Volga valley), and report both on the genuineness of... |
Cultural formation | Evelyn Sharp | |
Travel | Evelyn Sharp | ES
, who had visited Donegal in 1903, had loved it and learned a great deal about folk-dancing and songs, took her first postwar holiday in Ireland in July 1919. Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head. 201, 205-6 |
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 | Mary Sewell | Both of MS
's parents were members of the Society of Friends
, as were her husband's family. She remained a Friend, or Quaker, until 1835, when she joined the Church of England
after flirting... |
Education | Mary Sewell | |
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 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Scott | John Taylor had been a classical tutor in the Daventry Academy
and a minister in the English Presbyterian
church. By the time of his marriage his search for the truth had led him to join... |
Cultural formation | Mary Scott | MS
became a Unitarian
like John Taylor
before she married him. It has been said that she followed him again in his further change of religious affiliation, becoming a Quaker
in 1790. |
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