Society of Friends

As in her later novel Kith and Kin, JF draws on her Quaker heritage, and her underlying distrust of luxury and material comfort, for a sympathetic portrayal of nineteenth-century Quaker life. Inspired by the...

Her mother taught her to love the language of the Anglican prayer book and made her go to church (of the very HighAnglican variety). JG gave up her church-going when she was free to do...

AG , a fervent Christian believer, seems to have remained in the Church of England , in which she was brought up, but her many printed pleas for religious ecumenism may have been fuelled by...

Katharine Conway, later KBG , was born to an English, white, minister's family, who considering their middle-class status were relatively poor. She was the product of her parents' views on equality of educational opportunities for...

Glen , born on 24 April 1910, attended Ackworth School at Saffron Walden (a well-known Quaker boarding-school, still flourishing), where he was a gifted and brilliant scholar. At not yet eighteen he suddenly collapsed and...

Either KBG had become a member of the Society of Friends in time to send her youngest child to a Quaker school, or else the example of the school persuaded her to convert.

After her husband's death in 1921, KBG and her son Glen moved to a former mill cottage just outside Earby in Yorkshire. The cottage was discovered for her by a member of the Society of Friends

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...

As Mayoress of Bath, SG presided over a meeting at the Bath Guildhall that was held to raise support for the International Society of Friends ' appeal for donations to provide food for starving Germans.

Although SG was born in Ireland, her parents were English, stemming from propertied and professional families respectively. Memoirist Helen C. Black described her as coming alike on each side from a race of artistic...

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...

She was born into the upper middling ranks of white settler society. Like many in Pennsylvania, she was a Quaker .

HG admired the English religious writer Isaac Watts . Much of her poetry and many of her prose essays have religious themes; several are commemorative in function. Her prose can be as imaginative as her...

Her sharp critical mind is also reflected in poems of political tenour. She wrote an Ode on the late Peace (of Paris, signed on 10 February 1763), an epitaph on Britannia (personification of the colonial...

EH lived to the age of about thirty without questioning her religion, or those parts of the Bible which she could understand. Meeting with earnest Evangelicals would leave her at a loss what to think...