Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London.
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Travel | Margaret Fell | In summer 1677 MF
travelled abroad: to Holland with George Fox, Robert Barclay
, William Penn
, her daughter Isabel Yeamans
, and others. After that she made four more visits to London: in... |
Reception | May Drummond | From the first, however, MD
's preaching was polarizing, attracting not only praise but also criticism more hostile than Cookworthy's. She was blamed for her social manner, for being visibly of a higher rank than... |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Bathurst | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sophia Hume | SH
supplies her own commentary and link passages. Among the rather few women quoted are Elizabeth Ashbridge
, Christian Barclay
(wife of Robert Barclay
), and Anne Galloway
(on education). Topics covered include Getting and... |
Friends, Associates | Anne Conway | AC
corresponded with and was visited by many leading members of the Society of Friends
, among them Keith
, Robert Barclay
, Anne
and George Whitehead
, Isaac Penington
, William Penn
, and... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Priscilla Wakefield | PW
's mother, born Catherine Barclay, was a grand-daughter of Robert Barclay
the Quaker writer. |
Education | Mary Howitt | Mary learned by heart a central Quaker text, the seventeenth-century Barclay
's Catechism and Confession of Faith, even before going to school. Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London. 34 |
Cultural formation | Mary Scott | However, a letter to her from Anna Seward of July 1792 sounds sympathetic, even pitying, about John Taylor's becoming a strict disciple of [Robert] Barclay
. Seward, Anna. Letters of Anna Seward. Editor Constable, Archibald, Vol. 6 vols. , A. Constable. 3: 149 |
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