Society of Friends

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
death Anne Conway
More commented, I perceive and bless God for it, that my Lady Conway was my Lady Conway to her Last Breath.
Conway, Anne et al. The Conway Letters. Editor Hutton, Sarah, Clarendon Press.
451
As a Quaker she wrote a codicil to her will, revoking her order...
death Elizabeth Ashbridge
EA died on her Quaker missionary journey around Ireland, at a Friend's house in County Carlow.
Ashbridge, Elizabeth, and Arthur Charles Curtis. Quaker Grey. Astolat Press.
83-4
death Dorothy White
DW died of a fever in London, according to early records, not long after her last published appeal to Quakers not to forget their heroic and radical past.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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.
Education Sarah Stickney Ellis
She later spent the years 1813-16 at a Quaker school at Ackworth.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Education Elizabeth Jolley
When she was eleven, Elizabeth Knight (later EJ ) began to attend Sibford School at Sibford Ferris in ruralOxfordshire, run by the Friends (Quakers) but open to children of other faiths as well.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
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.
Education Mary Sewell
At the age of fifteen she ceased regular study, and began reading on her own. She spent much of the time at Friends ' meetings going over passages from Byron , Southey , Moore ...
Employer Katharine Evans
Her extensive travel during the 1650s (through all the component parts of Britain) was undertaken in the course of witnessing to her Quaker faith. Her ministry extended to distant parts of Britain and later overseas.
Graham, Elspeth et al., editors. Her Own Life. Routledge.
118
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Peisley
MP was married at Mountrath to Samuel Neale , a paper-maker who had converted to the Society of Friends through her preaching; that very evening she addressed the assembled Friends, her guests.
Peisley, Mary, and Samuel Neale. Some Account of the Life and Religious Exercises of Mary Neale, formerly Mary Peisley. John Gough.
119-20
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Fisher
MF (who had once answered a magistrate enquiring her husband's name that she had no husband but Jesus Christ)
Peters, Kate. Print Culture and the Early Quakers. Cambridge University Press.
76
married another notable Quaker spokesman, a ship's captain by trade, William Bayly .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Family and Intimate relationships L. S. Bevington
Alexander Bevington , LSB 's father, was also born on the edge of Colchester, at Lexden in Essex. His family had ties to George Fox (a founding member of the Society of Friends
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck
Her father, Samuel Galton , had intellectual interests; he belonged to the Lunar Society . By trade he was a gunmaker, an avocation which drew some disapproval from the Society of Friends , to which...
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Mollineux
She had first met him in prison the year before; he shared her Quaker beliefs and activism. After her death he testified that he had decided in prison that he wanted to marry her, but...
Family and Intimate relationships Constance Smedley
They had known each other as students at Birmingham Art School, and met again in 1907 when he designed the decor for a special dinner which CS gave at the Lyceum Club .
Smedley, Constance, and Maxwell Armfield. Crusaders. Chatto & Windus.
179-83
Family and Intimate relationships Katharine Evans
KE 's husband was John Evans, a wealthy man from the area of Bath. Writing to him from a foreign prison after a separation of more than two years she calls him my right...
Family and Intimate relationships Anna Letitia Waring
ALW 's uncle Samuel Miller Waring had left the Society of Friends to join the Anglican Church, and had published Sacred Melodies (1826), a collection of hymns. Through her uncle's example she was strengthened in...

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