Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Society of Friends
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Birth | Elizabeth Hooton | |
Birth | Anne Whitehead | |
Characters | Sarah Daniels | A foreword by Jalna Hanmer
explains that the play addresses the early-seventeenth-century shift towards male doctors' control of women's reproduction through new technology (the introduction of forceps) and through religion (the execution of witches)... |
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 |
Characters | Mrs E. M. Foster | This book differs from Foster's first two novels, in that it is shorter (two volumes instead of three or four), not historical but rather a sentimental novel about courtship, and originally published by Minerva
as... |
Characters | Dorothy Richardson | In Dimple Hill, the middle-aged Miriam goes on a holiday in Sussex, and remains there living on the farm named in the title as a paying guest of a family of Quakers
... |
Characters | Constance Smedley | The protagonist and letter-writer, Samuel Pumphrey, Smedley, Constance. Justice Walk. G. Allen and Unwin. 122 Smedley, Constance, and Maxwell Armfield. Crusaders. Chatto & Windus. 224 |
Cultural formation | Valentine Ackland | VA
was accepted as a member of the Society of Friends
; she remained a Quaker
during the remaining two months of her life. Harman, Claire. Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Biography. Chatto and Windus. 293 |
Cultural formation | Isabella Ormston Ford | She was brought up in Leeds in an English, radical Quaker
family with Liberal
politics who were committed to humanitarian pursuits. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Cultural formation | Sarah Grand | 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... |
Cultural formation | Mary Penington | MP
and her second husband
made the momentous conversion to Quakerism
, though the mediation of two Friends named Thomas Curtis
and William Simpson
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Cultural formation | Eleanor Rathbone | |
Cultural formation | Sophia Hume | Born English and white, to a leading family in a southern city of colonial America, Sophia descended through her mother from a family of Quaker heritage. Brought up in her father's Anglican
religion, she for... |
Cultural formation | Valentine Ackland | As a child, VA
was a fervent Anglo-Catholic, following her mother's example. Ackland, Valentine. For Sylvia: An Honest Account. Chatto and Windus. 37, 45 Mulford, Wendy. This Narrow Place. Pandora. 233 |
Cultural formation | Anna Sewell | After seriously injuring her ankle at the age of fourteen, AS
was dependent on horses for mobility for the rest of her life. Her gratitude towards these animals, coupled with the Quaker
and Rousseauvian
values... |
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
.
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
.
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
.
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.
1669: William Penn published No Cross, no Crown,...
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1669
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