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.
George Fox
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Standard Name: Fox, George,, 1624 - 1691
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Anne Audland | |
Friends, Associates | Anne Audland | |
Occupation | Anne Audland | On their conversion, AA
and her husband both became preachers. George Fox
mentions John's ministry and his preaching that same year. Fox, George. The Journal. Editor Smith, Nigel, Penguin. 86, 99 |
Friends, Associates | Anne Audland | George Fox
visited the Audlands' house many times: in 1652, 1656, and 1657, when he held a meeting there. Fox, George. The Journal. Editor Smith, Nigel, Penguin. 87, 93, 205, 237 |
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 |
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 |
Occupation | Katharine Evans | Even their opponents acknowledged the women's charismatic spiritual power. After their relations with the consul deteriorated, Katherine magisterially rebuked him as a condemned person, and stands guilty before God. She urged him to repent, but... |
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 |
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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Margaret Fell | He was ten years younger than she was; the marriage improved his social standing. The marriage was to some extent disputed within the Quaker movement, though they may have hoped it would quell any possible... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Margaret Fell | She was not in London when George Fox
, her second husband, died there on 13 January 1691. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan. 180 |
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... |
Cultural formation | Margaret Fell | |
politics | Margaret Fell |
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.