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Society of Friends
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Rebecca Travers | In The Harlot's Vail Rent, which appeared during the same year, RT
again reproved Elizabeth Atkinson
for leaving the Society of Friends
and switching to the opposite side in printed controversy. |
Textual Production | Anna Trapnel | AT
is said to have spoken a series of doggerel verses, many of them directed against the Quakers
, which an amanuensis took down from her lips. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Cultural formation | Anna Trapnel | She experienced a spiritual awakening after hearing a sermon by Hugh Peter
when she was about nineteen, then in 1650 joined the Baptist
congregation of John Simpson
. Later she moved to the sect of... |
Textual Features | Anna Trapnel | |
Cultural formation | Rosemary Sutcliff | |
Cultural formation | Ray Strachey | |
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 |
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 | 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 |
Author summary | Elizabeth Stirredge | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Stirredge | William Tayler, Elizabeth's father, was deeply religious. Elizabeth later cherished the memory of his piety, and regarded his words, There is a day coming wherein truth will gloriously break forth, as a prophecy of the... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Stirredge | A year later she was still seeking a mentor; but in due course she joined the Society of Friends
. After she was well established in her faith, she retained the habit of retiring alone... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Constance Smedley | They had known each other as students at Smedley, Constance, and Maxwell Armfield. Crusaders. Chatto & Windus. 179-83 |
Textual Features | Constance Smedley | The Emotions of Martha is a religious novel, in that Martha Spence's spiritual and emotional development run side by side. At the outset she feels certain that she has a remarkable artistic talent (her subjects... |
Characters | Constance Smedley | The protagonist and letter-writer, Samuel Pumphrey, Smedley, Constance. Justice Walk. G. Allen and Unwin. 122 Smedley, Constance, and Maxwell Armfield. Crusaders. Chatto & Windus. 224 |
Timeline
June 1787: A report from the Yearly Meeting of Quakers...
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June 1787
A report from the Yearly Meeting of Quakers
in this and the previous month noted a growing attention in many not of our religious society to the subject of Negro slavery.
1788: The Quaker Thomas Clarkson travelled round...
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1788
The QuakerThomas Clarkson
travelled round British ports collecting evidence (in the face of obstacles and opposition) about the operations of the slave trade.
11 May 1792: Edmund Burke in his Speech on the Petition...
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11 May 1792
Edmund Burke
in his Speech on the Petition of the Unitarians argued that Unitarians, who denied the doctrine of the Trinity, could not claim toleration like Catholics
, Presbyterian
s, Quakers
, and others.
14 June 1792: The title of radical novelist Robert Bage's...
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14 June 1792
The title of radical novelist Robert Bage
's anonymous Man As He Is, published this day, suggests the unpalatable truths revealed by reformers or satirists; it influenced later titles chosen by William Godwin
and others.
1801: The Quaker Joseph Lancaster opened his non-sectarian...
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1801
The QuakerJoseph Lancaster
opened his non-sectarian Free School in Borough Road in south-east London; he soon had a thousand pupils.
1808-9: Rudolph Ackermann published The Microcosm...
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1808-9
Rudolph Ackermann
published The Microcosm of London in three volumes, a remarkable collection of engraved views of life in the capital.
1847: The Friends First Day School Association...
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1847
The Friends First Day School Association
was founded; this Quaker
organization advocated literacy training for working-class adults.
8 August 1851: The system of tithes (one-tenth of the produce...
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8 August 1851
The system of tithes (one-tenth of the produce of agricultural land paid yearly for the support of the Church of England
) was abolished at the instigation of William Blamire the younger
(1790-1862).
1874: The Society for the Suppression of the Opium...
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1874
By September 1887: William Walker published at Aberdeen The...
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By September 1887
William Walker
published at AberdeenThe Bards of Bon-Accord, 1375-1860, a history of poetry in Aberdeenshire, which had already appeared serially in the Herald and Weekly Free Press.
The volume is dated from...
July 1921: News reached the rest of the world that the...
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July 1921
News reached the rest of the world that the harvest had failed for the fourth year in succession in Russia.
1922: William Penn, the well-known London Quaker...
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1922
William Penn, the well-known London Quaker
who emigrated to America and founded the state of Pennsylvania, was the subject of a play by Mary Lucy Pendered
.
Saturday 19 June 1926: About a hundred thousand participants of...
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Saturday 19 June 1926
About a hundred thousand participants of the Peacemakers' Pilgrimage (all wearing blue armbands showing the white dove of peace and the word Pax) converged on Hyde Park in London.
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