Eckhardt, Celia Morris. Fanny Wright. Harvard University Press.
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Occupation | Frances Wright | FW
delivered what was said to be the first public address by a woman on a public occasion before a large mixed audience Eckhardt, Celia Morris. Fanny Wright. Harvard University Press. 171 That is, the first public address... |
Cultural formation | Susanna Wright | Born an English middle-class Quaker
, she emigrated, probably as an adolescent, and lived her mature life as an American. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Susanna Wright | Her father, John Wright, who had trained as a doctor and became a Quaker
minister, settled by 1714 at Chester, Pennsylvania. In America he worked in various ways, as a farmer, a ferryman, and... |
Textual Features | Susanna Wright | It argues (before such arguments had been put forward in America by Abigail Adams
, Judith Sargent Murray
, or Mercy Otis Warren
, but drawing on beliefs current among Quakers
since their mid-seventeenth-century origins)... |
Cultural formation | Virginia Woolf | VW
was the daughter not only of an educated man, Woolf, Virginia. Three Guineas. Hogarth Press. 10 |
Characters | Emma Caroline Wood | It traces the life of Sabina Rock, an orphan in a Quaker
family, through her teenage years. This prodigy, who runs no risk of ever being mistaken for an ordinary mortal, Athenæum. J. Lection. 2097 (1868): 15 |
Author summary | Joan Whitrow | |
Cultural formation | Joan Whitrow | JW
, a Londoner with possible Welsh heritage, was a restless seeker after religious truth, apparently throughout her life. She sometimes dressed in sackcloth and ashes as a mark of penitence, for as much as... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Joan Whitrow | |
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. |
Textual Production | Joan Whitrow | Others who contributed were Rebecca Travers
(who wrote the opening pages under the title of the work as a whole), Sarah Ellis
, Ann Martin
, and Robert Whitrow
, Joan's husband, who signed a... |
Cultural formation | Anne Whitehead | She was baptised an Anglican
, and her Anglican family disowned her when she joined the Society of Friends
. Her conversion, which made her the first Londoner to join the Quakers, probably happened around... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Whitehead | The chief object of this text is to support the practice of separate Women's Meetings within the Quaker
movement as a whole; it presents itself as refuting objections to the continuance of separate Women's and... |
Birth | Anne Whitehead | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Whitehead | Anne Downer (later AW
) made her first, brief marriage, when already a Quaker
and in her late thirties, to Benjamin Greenwell
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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