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Connections Author name Excerpt
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)...
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, 1984.
171
in New Harmony, Indiana.
That is, the first public address...
Cultural formation Virginia Woolf
VW was the daughter not only of an educated man,
Woolf, Virginia. Three Guineas. Hogarth Press, 1986.
10
but of one of the most influential intellectuals in late Victorian England. Her family on both sides was part of the intellectual ascendancy....
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
is...
Author summary Joan Whitrow
JW , a Quaker and later an Independent pamphleteer in the post-Restoration period of reaction, is remarkable both for the family politics and religious feeling of her account of the deaths of two of her...
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
Joan's daughter, Susannah , was born about 1662, and in youth attended the local Anglican church, which later, after becoming a Quaker , she came to regard as that abominable House, where they commit their...
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...
Birth Anne Whitehead
According to the ODNB Anne Downer (later AW , early Quaker convert) was born at Charlbury in Oxfordshire, one of three sisters, at a less than certain date.
An Anne Downer, daughter of Andrew...
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/.
Family and Intimate relationships Anne Whitehead
Anne Greenwell made her second marriage, to George Whitehead , a grocer, legal expert, and veteran of prison, about twelve years her junior, who was known for his defences of Friends both in court and...
Textual Production Anne Whitehead
The year after her second marriage, AW (with thirty-six other women, including Rebecca Travers and Mary Elson ) signed For the King and both Houses of Parliament, a petition against the imprisonment of Friends

Timeline

17 August 1612: The trial of the Lancashire witches resulted...

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17 August 1612

The trial of the Lancashire witches resulted in the execution of seven women and one man.
Paxman, David. “Lancashire Spiritual Culture and the Question of Magic”. Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, edited by Timothy Erwin and Ourida Mostefai, Vol.
30
, 2001, pp. 223-43.
228
Sedley, Stephen. “Wringing out the Fault”. London Review of Books, 7 Mar. 2002, pp. 27-31.
28
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

8 July 1618: Michael Dalton had entered in the Stationers'...

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8 July 1618

Michael Dalton had entered in the Stationers' Register his book The Countrey Justice, Containing the Practice of the Justices of the Peace out of their Sessions, designed to raise the level of local administration...

1653: Andrew Sowle finished his apprenticeship...

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1653

Andrew Sowle finished his apprenticeship (to the Nonconformist printer Ruth Raworth ), and began printing Quaker texts from an unknown address.
Bracken, James K., and Joel Silver, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 170. Gale Research, 1996.
249, 250

9 December 1655: Cromwell issued an edict legally permitting...

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9 December 1655

Cromwell issued an edict legally permitting Jewish resettlement in England. The Jews had been expelled in 1290, though individuals had now been living in England unofficially for more than a century.
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
365
Worden, Blair. “Cromwellian England 1649-1660”. Stuart England, edited by Blair Worden, Phaidon, 1986, pp. 123-47.
137
Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan, 1994.
212
Alderman, Geoffrey. “Face to Faith”. The Guardian, 31 Dec. 2005, p. 29.
29

9 July 1656: John Evelyn made a sight-seeing visit to...

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9 July 1656

John Evelyn made a sight-seeing visit to Quakers in prison at Ipswich, Suffolk; he thought them a melancholy proud sort of people, and exceedingly ignorant.
Evelyn, John. Diary and Correspondence. Editor Bray, William, Routledge, 1906.
249

October 1656: Quaker maverick James Nayler set out to demonstrate...

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October 1656

Quaker maverick James Nayler set out to demonstrate the spirit of Christ within him by staging an entry into Bristol riding on a donkey, as Christ had ridden into Jerusalem.
Hill, Christopher. “The World Turned Upside Down, 1975: Part I: Inspiration and Experience”. Street Corner Society: Upside Down.

10 June 1658: The Quaker Sarah Blackborow published the...

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10 June 1658

The QuakerSarah Blackborow published the earliest of her several signed pamphlets, A Visit to the Spirit in Prison.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

1659-60: Quakers accounted for 10% of all titles printed...

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1659-60

Quakers accounted for 10% of all titles printed in England, though they were only 1% of the population.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
145

1 June 1660: Mary Dyer (a colonial immigrant from England...

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1 June 1660

Mary Dyer (a colonial immigrant from England and a friend of Anne Hutchinson ) was hanged in Boston, Massachusetts, for preaching as a member of the Society of Friends .
American National Biography. http://www.anb.org/articles/home.html.

January 1661: Fifth Monarchists (who expected the Second...

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January 1661

Fifth Monarchists (who expected the Second Coming and political rule of Christ, and had opposed the Cromwell ian government too) staged an uprising against the new king, Charles II .
Fox, George, 1624 - 1691. The Journal. Editor Smith, Nigel, Penguin, 1998.
294 and n1

1662: The Printing or Licensing Act restored the...

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1662

The Printing or Licensing Act restored the principles of government censorship which had been current before the Civil War: it limited the number of printers and required them to put their names on their works...

August 1663: The Kaber Rigg Plot in the North of England...

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August 1663

The Kaber Rigg Plot in the North of England caused renewed persecution of Quakers .
Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan, 1994.
ix, xii

1665: Lillias Skene (born Lillias Gillespie in...

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1665

Lillias Skene (born Lillias Gillespie in 1626), wife of a leading Aberdeen citizen and a recent convert to the Quakerism , penned the first poem in a volume which she went on using till her...

1667: The Quakers established Monthly Meetings...

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1667

The Quakers established Monthly Meetings to direct the business and lives of their members.
Lloyd, Arnold. Quaker Social History 1669-1738. Longman’s, Green, 1950.
110
Lloyd, Arnold. Quaker Social History 1669-1738. Longman’s, Green, 1950.
109-11

1669: William Penn published No Cross, no Crown,...

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1669

William Penn published No Cross, no Crown, a manifesto on behalf of the Quakers .
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

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