Mulford, Carla et al., editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Gale Research.
Society of Friends
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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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, |
Cultural formation | Amelia Opie | AO
, who had left the Unitarian
church in 1814 and taken the decision to convert to Quakerism, had her application to join the Society of Friends
accepted. Opie, Amelia. “Introduction”. Adeline Mowbray, edited by Shelley King and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, p. i - xxix. xxxviii |
Cultural formation | Anna Letitia Waring | ALW
was brought as a Quaker
. Both her parents were members of the Society of Friends
, to which her family had belonged for generations. They were also proud of their Welsh ancestry. 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. Talbot, Mary S. In Remembrance of Anna Letitia Waring. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 4 |
Cultural formation | Emilie Barrington | |
Cultural formation | Joan Whitrow | JW
, a Londoner with possible Welsh heritage, was a restless seeker after religious truth, apparently throughout her life. She sometimes dressed in sackcloth and ashes as a mark of penitence, for as much as... |
Cultural formation | Mary Peisley | |
Cultural formation | Sophia Hume | SH
, religiously awakened by a dangerous brush with smallpox, converted from Anglicanism
and joined the Society of Friends
. 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. |
Cultural formation | Harriet Corp | |
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. |
Cultural formation | May Drummond | Born into an upwardly-mobile Scottish bourgeois family and brought up in the Church of Scotland
, MD
was about twenty-one when she left the church, gave up their Society and Ceremonies (without, she wrote indignantly... |
Cultural formation | Sarah Grand | Although SG
was born in Ireland, her parents were English, stemming from propertied and professional families respectively. Memoirist Helen C. Black
described her as coming alike on each side from a race of artistic... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Stirredge | ES
says the Lord began to work in her heart, preparing a conversion experience, when the QuakersJohn Audland
and John Camm
shamed her about her fine clothes. Stirredge, Elizabeth. Strength in Weakness Manifest. J. Sowle. 15 |
Cultural formation | Margaret Fell | MF
and her family were converted to Quakerism
by George Fox
. Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan. x |
Cultural formation | Emma Marshall | She was born into the English middle class. Her mother had been a Quaker
, who was disowned by the Friends on her marriage to a non-Quaker, but received back into the Society after the... |
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 |
Timeline
1670: Members of a London jury headed by Edward...
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1670
Members of a London jury headed by Edward Bushel
(called by a recent commentator disinterested . . . property-owners) professed themselves willing to go to jail rather than to convict against their consciences.
18 July 1671: The Quaker women's meeting, begun by Ann...
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18 July 1671
The Quaker
women's meeting, begun by Ann Stevens
and Damaris Sanders
, was held at Priestwood near Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire: it has been called the first documented women's meeting.
October 1671: The Swarthmoor Women's Monthly Meeting was...
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October 1671
The Swarthmoor Women's Monthly Meeting was instituted (perhaps the first women's meeting of Quakers
outside London to become permanent, though the Great Missenden meeting had first met by July).
November 1671: The Quaker Thomas Milne of Aberdeen, who...
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November 1671
The QuakerThomas Milne
of Aberdeen, who had buried his dead child in a kail-yard in preference to the Presbyterian grave-yard, was punished by a sentence of exile, closing his shop, and removing the body.
Late March 1673: The Test Act barred from office (even local...
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Late March 1673
The Test Act barred from office (even local office) anyone who declined to take the sacrament of the Church of England
and an oath against the Catholic
doctrine of Transubstantiation.
15 July 1673: The Publishing Committee of the Society of...
Women writers item
15 July 1673
The Publishing Committee
of the Society of Friends
made the decision to archive two copies of every book published by a Quaker.
From September 1673: The Quakers set up a weekly Morning Meeting,...
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From September 1673
The Quakers
set up a weekly Morning Meeting, in London changed with vetting texts submitted for publication.
1677: By this year the Society of Friends included...
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1677
By this year the Society of Friends
included prosperous merchants and traders in all the major centres in England and Ireland. At least fourteen substantial London merchants were Quakers, which provided a new motive...
January 1678: An unidentified woman clerk thought it worth...
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January 1678
An unidentified woman clerk thought it worth while to write the history of the beginnings of the separate meeting of women Quakers
at Priestwood near Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire.
1678: Quaker theologian Robert Barclay's Apology...
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1678
Quaker
theologian Robert Barclay
's Apology for the True Christian Divinity was first published in English, by the Sowle Press
.
1679: The Licensing Act of 1662 lapsed; penalties...
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1679
The Licensing Act of 1662 lapsed; penalties being no longer in force, Quaker
printers began putting their names on the title-pages issuing from their shops.
December 1681: The Privy Council moved against Quakers and...
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December 1681
The Privy Council
moved against Quakers
and Dissenters by enforcing past orders against them, like the Clarendon Code, which dated 1661 and the few years thereafter.
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