Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Society of Friends
Connections
Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Isabella Ormston Ford | |
Cultural formation | Anna Trapnel | She experienced a spiritual awakening after hearing a sermon by Hugh Peter
when she was about nineteen, then in 1650 joined the Baptist
congregation of John Simpson
. Later she moved to the sect of... |
Cultural formation | Sarah Grand | Though not an active member of the Church of England
, SG
did admire the Church and its role in British culture. By her late adulthood, however, she also developed an interest in certain tenets... |
Cultural formation | Dorothy White | She was a presumably English Quaker
; nothing is known of her social background. By the end of her life she held millenarian beliefs. |
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 | Carol Shields | |
Cultural formation | Valentine Ackland | As a child, VA
was a fervent Anglo-Catholic, following her mother's example. Ackland, Valentine. For Sylvia: An Honest Account. Chatto and Windus. 37, 45 Mulford, Wendy. This Narrow Place. Pandora. 233 |
Cultural formation | Isabella Ormston Ford | The Ford family did not conform to the stricter rules of the Quaker
denomination, and Isabella and her siblings were allowed to dance, paint, play instruments, and sing. The children also developed strong senses of... |
Cultural formation | Mary Ann Kelty | MAK
thought that the existential angst she suffered during her childhood was unique until she read Margaret Fuller
's Memoirs. Kelty, Mary Ann. Reminiscences of Thought and Feeling. W. Pickering. 134 |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Bathurst | |
Cultural formation | May Drummond | In 1759 MD
sought official permission from the Society of Friends
to travel to America and preach there. Permission was denied by William Miller
of Edinburgh, and this seems to have precipitated a movement by... |
Cultural formation | Dora Greenwell | Presumably white, DG
was born into an upper-middle class family that was then comfortably off, but was financially devastated several years after her birth. Her religious allegiances present some confusion. She was brought up as... |
Cultural formation | Mary Leadbeater | |
Cultural formation | Priscilla Wakefield | She came from a distinguished English Quaker
family of the middle class. |
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/. |
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