Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
William Penn
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Standard Name: Penn, William
Connections
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Residence | Dorothy Wellesley | She said the house's little faĉade was perfect, and the rocks were real, large, and primeval. It had once belonged to Guglielma Penn
, wife of the famous Quaker William Penn
and daughter (though Wellesley... |
death | Rebecca Travers | |
Textual Production | Constance Smedley | A couple of years after her return from America, CS
set a novel there: The Unholy Experiment, which draws on but radically alters some of her own experience. She dedicated it to her... |
Textual Production | J. K. Rowling | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Catherine Phillips | Later she reports in detail a conversation with a negro informant about slavery: he was, she says, well-fed and well-clad, but he reported cruelty although he was not himself a victim of it. She laments... |
Cultural formation | Mary Penington | At Worminghurst in Sussex (a house belonging to her son-in-law William Penn
which was probably a gift from herself), MP
had a delightful dream of glorious heavenly forms. Penington, Mary. Experiences in the Life of Mary Penington. Editor Penney, Norman, Friends Historical Society. 51 Penington, Mary. Experiences in the Life of Mary Penington. Editor Penney, Norman, Friends Historical Society. 48-52 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Penington | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Wentworth Morton | She found this story in a recent issue of the American Museum, where it was set in Canada. American National Biography. http://www.anb.org/articles/home.html. |
Textual Production | Deborah Norris Logan | DNL
published during her lifetime, as a contributor to the National Gazette. Premo, Terri L. “’Like A Being Who Does Not Belong’: The Old Age of Deborah Norris Logan”. Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 107 , No. 1, pp. 85-112. 87-8 |
Textual Features | Kathleen E. Innes | This book provides a historical account showing how the League ideal developed from the Amphictyonic League in ancient Greece, through the conceptions of William Penn
, the Abbé St Pierre
, Immanuel Kant
, and Tsar Nicholas II
. |
Friends, Associates | Margaret Fell | A number of early Quakers became lifelong friends and fellow-workers with MF
. She met James Naylor or Nayler
and Richard Farnsworth
not long after she met George Fox
. Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan. 240n2 |
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... |
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 |
Reception | Anne Docwra | Bugg
continued his attacks in William Penn
, the Pretended Quaker . . . To which is Added, A Winding-Sheet for Anne Dockwra, 1700, and A Seasonable Caveat against the Prevalency of Quakerism... |
Timeline
1664: Charles II granted land in America to the...
National or international item
1664
Charles II
granted land in America to the Duke of York
, which in 1681 was sold to the Quaker William Penn
, and eventually became the Quaker colony of Pennsylvania.
1669: William Penn published No Cross, no Crown,...
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1669
1682: The colony of Pennsylvania was founded by...
National or international item
1682
The colony of Pennsylvania was founded by William Penn
.
1694-1706: Quaker printer Tace Sowle produced three...
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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.
February 1768: James Boswell published his composite work...
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February 1768
James Boswell
published his composite work on the Corsican liberation struggle: An Account of Corsica; the Journal of a Tour to that Island; and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli.
1922: William Penn, the well-known London Quaker...
Women writers item
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
.
Texts
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