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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Amelia Opie | AO
, who had left the Unitarian
church in 1814 and taken the decision to convert to Quakerism, had her application to join the Society of Friends
accepted. Opie, Amelia. “Introduction”. Adeline Mowbray, edited by Shelley King and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, p. i - xxix. xxxviii |
Cultural formation | Harriet Corp | |
Cultural formation | Rebecca Travers | She was originally a Baptist
and was converted to Quakerism
by James Nayler
. She remained loyal to Nayler, even after he was disgraced and condemned by George Fox
. RT
organised the first women's... |
Cultural formation | Emilie Barrington | |
Cultural formation | Catherine Phillips | She was a middle-class Englishwoman, a Quaker
both by birth and conversion. |
Cultural formation | Priscilla Wakefield | A loyal, life-long member of the Society of Friends
, PW
was anything but narrow in her beliefs and practice. In middle life she wrote that without disparaging the value of [t]rue religion, she desired... |
Cultural formation | Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck | |
Cultural formation | Sophia Hume | SH
, religiously awakened by a dangerous brush with smallpox, converted from Anglicanism
and joined the Society of Friends
. 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. |
Cultural formation | Mary Peisley | She was born into the Irish cottager or labouring class and into the Society of Friends
. The family had a long tradition of Quaker belief and activism. She later observed that her father's cottage... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Jolley | EJ
was born into the white middle class. She described the family in which she grew up ashalf-English and three-quarters Viennese. Daniel, Helen. Liars: Australian New Novelists. Penguin. 272 |
Cultural formation | May Drummond | Born into an upwardly-mobile Scottish bourgeois family and brought up in the Church of Scotland
, MD
was about twenty-one when she left the church, gave up their Society and Ceremonies (without, she wrote indignantly... |
Cultural formation | Sarah Grand | Although SG
was born in Ireland, her parents were English, stemming from propertied and professional families respectively. Memoirist Helen C. Black
described her as coming alike on each side from a race of artistic... |
Cultural formation | Margaret Fell | MF
and her family were converted to Quakerism
by George Fox
. Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan. x |
Cultural formation | Emma Marshall | She was born into the English middle class. Her mother had been a Quaker
, who was disowned by the Friends on her marriage to a non-Quaker, but received back into the Society after the... |
Cultural formation | Amelia Opie | She came from a cultured, financially comfortable middle-class but Unitarian
English family. Her class status meant that even after she converted from Dissent
to Quakerism
, Opie, Amelia. “Introduction”. Adeline Mowbray, edited by Shelley King and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, p. i - xxix. xxxviii |
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