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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | E. A. Dillwyn | |
Cultural formation | Marie Stopes | She was born into the Scottish professional classes, with Quaker
heritage on her father's side; the family left Scotland in the year of her birth. |
Cultural formation | Mary Penington | |
Cultural formation | Joan Vokins | Born in the yeoman class, she was brought up an Anglican
. In youth and for years after her marriage she felt spiritually lost, as a ship without an anchor among the merciless waves. Graham, Elspeth et al., editors. Her Own Life. Routledge. 216 |
Cultural formation | Catherine Hutton | CH
grew up in a Dissenting
family which suffered for its beliefs. She had a number of Quaker friends, to whom she unembarrassedly used thou and thee. She wrote that she almost became a... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Ashbridge | She left the Dublin cousin because she hated his Quaker
religion. Naturally vivacious, this teenaged widow found her cousin's gloomy sense of sorrow and conviction, Ashbridge, Elizabeth, and Arthur Charles Curtis. Quaker Grey. Astolat Press. 13-14 |
Cultural formation | Marie Stopes | MS
seems also to have reacted against her mother's inculcation of the hellfire beliefs of the particularly harsh brand of Presbyterianism
associated with the Wee Free or Free Church of Scotland
. Commire, Anne, and Deborah Klezmer, editors. Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Yorkin Publications. Maude, Aylmer. The Authorized Life of Marie C. Stopes. Williams and Norgate. 185 |
Cultural formation | May Kendall | Later in life she involved herself with the Quakers or Society of Friends
. Diana Maltz
notes that although she was not a Quaker herself, she was closely allied with their institutional activities and contributed... |
Cultural formation | Frances Bellerby | While her husband was going though a series of shifts in his political and moral thinking, FB
in 1934 became a Quaker
. Her reason for this was the Quakers' anti-war stance. Gittings, Robert, and Frances Bellerby. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by Anne Stevenson and Anne Stevenson, Enitharmon Press. 22 |
Cultural formation | Sarah Stickney Ellis | |
Cultural formation | Barbara Blaugdone | She was said to have been well-connected, though whether this was through her parents or her husband is likewise unclear. Her contacts suggest that she was at least at ease with the upper classes, and... |
Cultural formation | Anne Whitehead | She was baptised an Anglican
, and her Anglican family disowned her when she joined the Society of Friends
. Her conversion, which made her the first Londoner to join the Quakers, probably happened around... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Hooton | Elizabeth was born to a Baptist
family, and was very active within the movement. She was already an established preacher well before she became perhaps the first person to join George Fox
in the embryonic... |
Cultural formation | Mary Ann Shadd Cary | Mary Ann Shadd came of mixed white and black (or, in her own word, colored) American heritage on both maternal and paternal sides. Her paternal great-grandfather came originally from Germany. The family was economically... |
Cultural formation | Susanna Wright | Born an English middle-class Quaker
, she emigrated, probably as an adolescent, and lived her mature life as an American. |
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