Society of Friends

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Cultural formation Marie Stopes
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.
Cultural formation Amelia Opie
She came from a cultured, financially comfortable middle-class but Unitarian English family. Her class status meant that even after she converted from Dissent to Quakerism ,
Opie, Amelia. “Introduction”. Adeline Mowbray, edited by Shelley King and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, p. i - xxix.
xxxviii
her attitudes remained worldly in comparison with those...
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 Joan Vokins
Born in the yeoman class, she was brought up an Anglican . In youth and for years after her marriage she felt spiritually lost, as a ship without an anchor among the merciless waves.
Graham, Elspeth et al., editors. Her Own Life. Routledge.
216
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.
293
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 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 Sarah Grand
Though not an active member of the Church of England , SG did admire the Church and its role in British culture. By her late adulthood, however, she also developed an interest in certain tenets...
Cultural formation Marie Stopes
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 .
Commire, Anne, and Deborah Klezmer, editors. Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Yorkin Publications.
Maude, Aylmer. The Authorized Life of Marie C. Stopes. Williams and Norgate.
185
As an...
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.
37, 45
Later in life she became a Roman Catholic , struggled with her Catholicism, and eventually became a Quaker .
Mulford, Wendy. This Narrow Place. Pandora.
233
Cultural formation Isabella Ormston Ford
The Ford family did not conform to the stricter rules of the Quaker denomination, and Isabella and her siblings were allowed to dance, paint, play instruments, and sing. The children also developed strong senses of...
Cultural formation Mary Ann Kelty
MAK thought that the existential angst she suffered during her childhood was unique until she read Margaret Fuller 's Memoirs.
Kelty, Mary Ann. Reminiscences of Thought and Feeling. W. Pickering.
134
She felt her unhappiness as a child and young woman was good for...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Bathurst
It sounds as if EB 's parents were English Quakers of the rising London middle class. In her first publication she wrote that God called her by his grace even in my tender Years.
Bathurst, Elizabeth, and Anne Bathurst. An Expostulatory Appeal to the Professors of Christianity.
1
Cultural formation May Drummond
In 1759 MD sought official permission from the Society of Friends to travel to America and preach there. Permission was denied by William Miller of Edinburgh, and this seems to have precipitated a movement by...
Cultural formation Dora Greenwell
Presumably white, DG was born into an upper-middle class family that was then comfortably off, but was financially devastated several years after her birth. Her religious allegiances present some confusion. She was brought up as...

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