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.
Society of Friends
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Anna Letitia Waring | ALW
was brought as a Quaker
. Both her parents were members of the Society of Friends
, to which her family had belonged for generations. They were also proud of their Welsh ancestry. Talbot, Mary S. In Remembrance of Anna Letitia Waring. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 4 |
Cultural formation | Barbara Blaugdone | BB
was converted to Quakerism
by two of the early adherents of the sect, John Audland
and John Camm
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Cultural formation | Mary Scott | MS
grew up in a prosperous, middle-class household, in which religion was the centre of everyday life and activity. Most sources agree that her family were Protestant Dissenters. Though Anna Seward
said they were Anglicans |
Cultural formation | Sophia Hume | Born English and white, to a leading family in a southern city of colonial America, Sophia descended through her mother from a family of Quaker heritage. Brought up in her father's Anglican
religion, she for... |
Cultural formation | Mary Ann Kelty | At last she freed herself enough from her religious scruples to decide that music and writing were both permissible. It was about now that she moved to Ipswich with a view to learning more about... |
Cultural formation | Mary Peisley | |
Cultural formation | Hannah Griffitts | She was born into the upper middling ranks of white settler society. Like many in Pennsylvania, she was a Quaker
. |
Cultural formation | Joan Whitrow | JW
, a Londoner with possible Welsh heritage, was a restless seeker after religious truth, apparently throughout her life. She sometimes dressed in sackcloth and ashes as a mark of penitence, for as much as... |
Cultural formation | John Bunyan | JB
's spiritual struggle dated back to his unregenerate teens. Under the influence of his first wife he began attending the establishedchurch
and developed exaggerated reverence for its priests, Bunyan, John. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners. George Larkin. 5 |
Cultural formation | E. A. Dillwyn | |
Cultural formation | Mary Scott | MS
became a Unitarian
like John Taylor
before she married him. It has been said that she followed him again in his further change of religious affiliation, becoming a Quaker
in 1790. |
Cultural formation | A. S. Byatt | |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Stirredge | ES
says the Lord began to work in her heart, preparing a conversion experience, when the QuakersJohn Audland
and John Camm
shamed her about her fine clothes. Stirredge, Elizabeth. Strength in Weakness Manifest. J. Sowle. 15 |
death | Elizabeth Hooton | Her death was reported to the Society of Friends
in England by James Lancaster
, who provided a loving presence for her at the end. Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. University of California Press. 130 |
death | Dorothy White | DW
died of a fever in London, according to early records, not long after her last published appeal to Quakers
not to forget their heroic and radical past. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. 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. |
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