Society of Friends

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...

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...

She prefaced these poems on religious and non-religious subjects with an account of the Quakers .

From the views expressed in her novels, EBL appears to have been an Anglican of Evangelical outlook and Quaker sympathies.

Both these novels feature French and Latin tags in their text, but lack epigraphs at the head of chapters. The Quakers, which Garside calls Opie -esque, is written in a confident, literary style and...

Her family were Quakers , said to be in humble life, which suggests that the school where the father taught was an unpretentious one for children of the local poor.

Subscribers included Wordsworth , Southey , and De Quincey , all of them writers living in the area. Commentator Jonathan Wordsworth suggests that the subscription list, which clearly took careful fund-raising work, may have been...

Seventeenth-century Linskills were active in the Society of Friends and in local trade. Mary Jane was strongly religious. Stamp relays a story of her mother not only frightening her with stories about hell, but...

Her family were Quakers , but wealthy ones, leaders too in the political life of Pennsylvania at the time that the British American colonies were becoming the United States.

The Burges children's father, though he is against Pusey ism, is broad-minded about Puseyites as he is in other respects: visitors to their house include not only Anglicans but Moravians , a Baptist ...

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...

Scandal engulfed him in spring 1699, when he was accused of raping and perhaps murdering a young Quaker woman named Sarah Stout . He claimed that the accusation was cynically brought by his political enemies...

EM published in Life's Aftermath, A Story of Quiet Peoplea picture of Quaker manners describing tense scenes at the annual Quaker meetings in London in the years of her early childhood, when several Friends...

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...

Her writings do not appear to have reached a wide audience. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography notes that MM is more outspokenly feminist than Quaker writers of her own day, though not than...