Pfaelzer, Jean. Parlor Radical: Rebecca Harding Davis and the Origins of American Social Realism. University of Pittsburgh Press.
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Literary Setting | Edna Lyall | The story revolves around Jacobite plots and persecution of Quakers
in the period when Queen Mary II
was Regent for her husband, William
, during his absences abroad. It introduces actual characters like the former... |
Literary Setting | Rebecca Harding Davis | The story presents the routine of working life for Welsh immigrants to the USA; in it RHD
seeks to articulate the impact of industrialism on the proletariat. Pfaelzer, Jean. Parlor Radical: Rebecca Harding Davis and the Origins of American Social Realism. University of Pittsburgh Press. 26-7 |
Literary responses | M. Marsin | Her writings do not appear to have reached a wide audience. Burns, William E. “’By Him the Women will be delivered from that Bondage, which some has found intolerable’: M. Marsin, English Millenarian Feminist”. Eighteenth-Century Women: Studies in their Lives, Work, and Culture, edited by Linda V. Troost, Vol. 1 , pp. 19-38. 33 |
Literary responses | Amelia Opie | Response was tepid in England. The Literary Gazette called this book by one of its long-time favourites a milk-and-water work, poised between Quakerism
and satire on the fashionable world, and more successful as morality than... |
Literary responses | Sarah Chapone | Mary Delany
, who read this work in manuscript, called it ingenious (in that word's old-fashioned meaning of learned or scholarly), but thought that the legal aspect still needed revision. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Hooton | EH
's thinking helped shape that of George Fox
and thus of the Quaker
movement as a whole. Emily Manners
published a booklet about her for the Friends Historical Society
in 1914. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Katharine Evans | The reprintings show the impact that this text had on contemporary Quakers
. Anthologists Elspeth Graham
, Elaine Hobby
, Hilary Hinds
, and Helen Wilcox
call it as much a text of love as of resistance. Graham, Elspeth et al., editors. Her Own Life. Routledge. 119 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Rebecca Travers | This was designed to refute controversial texts published against Quaker
doctrine by Robert Cobbet
(A Word to the Upright, 1668) and Elizabeth Atkinson
(Breif [sic] and Plain Discovery of the Labourers in... |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Anne Audland | The Society of Friends
lived up to its name. AA
belonged to a network of activists who kept closely in touch, finding time in their busy lives for affectionate and detailed correspondence. |
Friends, Associates | Katharine Evans | Among other warm relationships she formed with fellow members of the Society of Friends
, the most important was with Sarah Chevers or Cheevers
, with whom she shared voyages and persecution. Chevers, about ten... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Peisley | |
Friends, Associates | Joan Whitrow | Close friends with JW
at the time of her children's deaths were the QuakersSarah Ellis
, Ann Martin
, and especially Rebecca Travers
. Later, at Twickenham, she became a friend of the barber-surgeon Mathias Perkins
. “People. Joan Whitrow”. The Twickenham Museum. |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Hooton | Her associates among the Society of Friends
included the eminent, like George Fox
, and the obscure, like Joan Brooksop
. Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. University of California Press. 127-8 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Peisley | MP
was married at Mountrath to Samuel Neale
, a paper-maker who had converted to the Society of Friends
through her preaching; that very evening she addressed the assembled Friends, her guests. Peisley, Mary, and Samuel Neale. Some Account of the Life and Religious Exercises of Mary Neale, formerly Mary Peisley. John Gough. 119-20 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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