George Fox

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Standard Name: Fox, George,, 1624 - 1691

Connections

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Travel Mary Penington
MP travelled through Kent, past Gravesend to The Downs, with her husband , her daughter Gulielma or Gully, and Margaret Fox (formerly Fell) , to see George Fox off on a preaching voyage.
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Travel Margaret Fell
In summer 1663 MF made a thousand-mile journey around the west (from Bristol through Somerset, Devon, and Dorset, then north and through Yorkshire, Northumberland, and Westmorland); five years later...
Travel Elizabeth Hooton
EH left on her third and final missionary visit across the Atlantic, to Barbados and Jamaica with George Fox and others.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. University of California Press.
130n9
Theme or Topic Treated in Text U. A. Fanthorpe
The title sequence is important in the volume.
Bailey, Rosemarie. “Temperamental Outsider”. The Ship, Vol.
66
, pp. 67-8.
68
Other topics include the poet's mother, the Quaker pacifist George Fox , and the theme of the woman writer's particular struggles, for which UAF employs Virginia Woolf
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Ann Kelty
She had already issued, in 1840, Early Days in the Society of Friends: exemplifying the obedience of faith, in some of its first members, a work focussing on George Fox . By primitive in...
Textual Production Dorothy Richardson
DR 's second book about the Quakers was published: an anthology derived from the writings of the movement's early leader, Gleanings from the Work of George Fox.
Fromm, Gloria G. Dorothy Richardson: A Biography. University of Illinois Press.
74, 76
Textual Production Margaret Fell
MF (no doubt already a letter-writer, as were most women of her class) first wrote to George Fox in 1652, the year of her conversion.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
under George Fox
Her correspondence with both him and William Penn
Textual Production Margaret Fell
This was one half of a three-page pamphlet of which Fox wrote the other half, entitled The Difference between the Worlds Relation which Stands in Strife . . . and the Saints relation which stands...
Textual Production Margaret Fell
MF published jointly with George Fox a leaflet of which her part was entitled A Paper Concerning Such as are made Ministers by the Will of Man.
Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan.
284n8
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Margaret Fell
The first, posthumous publication of George Fox 's Journal included a Testimony concerning him by MF : not only a biographical but also an autobiographical sketch.
George Fox had died on 13 January 1691.
Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan.
239n2
Textual Features George Bernard Shaw
In it, Charles II , Nell Gwyn , Isaac Newton , and George Fox , among others, debate religious, scientific, and artistic issues.
Textual Features Edna Lyall
The story revolves around Jacobite plots and persecution of Quakers in the period when Queen Mary II was Regent for her husband, William , during his absences abroad. It introduces actual characters like the former...
politics Hester Biddle
George Fox later reported meeting HB in the Strand in London in about 1657, at a time when Cromwell was persecuting Quakers . She told him of her plan to seek out the future Charles II
politics Margaret Fell
MF wrote to ask her first husband to arrange the publication of tracts by George Fox and others.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
politics Margaret Fell
A Colonel Richard Kirkby delivered a warning through George Fox to MF that she must cease holding great meetings at her house for they met contrary to the Act.
Fox, George et al. The Journal of George Fox. Editor Nickalls, John L., Cambridge University Press.
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Timeline

1667: The Quakers established Monthly Meetings...

Building item

1667

The Quakers established Monthly Meetings to direct the business and lives of their members.

1694-1706: Quaker printer Tace Sowle produced three...

Writing climate item

1694-1706

Quaker printer Tace Sowle produced three volumes of the works of George Fox (Quaker pioneer, husband of Margaret Fell ): his Journal, Epistles, and Gospel-Truth Demonstrated.

Texts

Fell, Margaret, and George Fox. A Paper Concerning Such as are made Ministers by the Will of Man. Printed for M. W., 1659.
Fortescue, William et al. A Short Relation. 1671.
Fox, George. The Journal. Editor Smith, Nigel, Penguin, 1998.
Fox, George et al. The Journal of George Fox. Editor Nickalls, John L., Cambridge University Press, 1952.