Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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. Fox... |
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. Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. University of California Press. 130n9 |
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... |
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 |
Textual Production | Dorothy Richardson | |
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 |
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 | 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... |
Textual Features | George Bernard Shaw | In it, Charles II
, Nell Gwyn
, Isaac Newton
, and George Fox
, among others, debate religious, scientific, and artistic issues. |
politics | Margaret Fell | In organising the Fund she was interested in promoting social cohesion among Quakers as well as relieving hardship. Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan. 87 |
politics | Margaret Fell | This approach to the newly-restored monarch was a vital tactical move for the Quakers, who had been persecuted in the last years of the Interregnum. George Fox
was still in prison; MF
went to London... |
politics | Margaret Fell | When magistrates charged her with keeping a meeting at her house, she replied: while it pleased the Lord to let me have a House, I would endeavour to worship him in it. Fell, Margaret. A Brief Collection of Remarkable Passages. J. Sowle. 7 |
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.