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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Ann Kelty | |
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... |
politics | May Kendall | During the second half of her life, from 1898, MK
gave up writing fiction to focus on social reform, a shift that culminated in the appearance of How the Labourer Lives in 1913. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research. 123 |
Publishing | May Kendall | In the twentieth century, MK
re-focused her talents on non-fiction [and] sociological investigations with members of the Rowntree family. She first worked with John Wilhelm Rowntree
on a series of powerful essays in his York... |
Cultural formation | Hannah Kilham | |
politics | Hannah Kilham | |
politics | Hannah Kilham | |
Cultural formation | Hannah Kilham | She was brought up as an Anglican
, but converted first to Wesleyan Methodism
(in which her mother had shown some interest) and later to Quakerism
. |
politics | Hannah Kilham | During this same winter she was urging fellow-Quakers
to strike an informal committee that could publicise her concerns about Africa: the result was a Committee for African Instruction
. Dickson, Mora. The Powerful Bond: Hannah Kilham 1774-1832. Dobson. 111 |
politics | Hannah Kilham | During her interval of time in England in 1828-30, HK
spoke to meetings of Friends
about her anti-slavery concerns. Disregarding difference of faith, she quoted Hannah More
in these talks. Kilham, Hannah. Memoir of the late Hannah Killam. Editor Biller, Sarah, Harvey and Darton. 336-7 |
Author summary | Mary Leadbeater | |
Cultural formation | Mary Leadbeater | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Leadbeater | Her half-brother, another Abraham
, who took over the school when their father retired, was a man of deep thought, immense conscientiousness, and oppositional temperament. His pacifist convictions caused him to strike a number of... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Leadbeater | Mary Shackleton first met her future husband when he came as a boy to Ballitore School
in 1777, brought there by his Anglican clergyman guardian and a friend who was a Roman Catholic priest. This... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Leadbeater | She prefaced these poems on religious and non-religious subjects with an account of the Quakers
. |
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