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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 | 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 |
death | Elizabeth Ashbridge | |
Author summary | Elizabeth Ashbridge | |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Ashbridge | She left the Dublin cousin because she hated his Quaker
religion. Naturally vivacious, this teenaged widow found her cousin's gloomy sense of sorrow and conviction, Ashbridge, Elizabeth, and Arthur Charles Curtis. Quaker Grey. Astolat Press. 13-14 |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Ashbridge | She had a final struggle to undertake before, while visiting her Quaker relatives at Philadelphia, she finally humbled her pride by joining the Society of Friends
, which she had for so long despised... |
Textual Production | Anne Audland | AA
contributed a testimony on her late first husband
, and a letter to him, to the collaborative Quaker
text The Memory of the Righteous Revived. 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. |
Reception | Anne Audland | The Friends Library began publication in Philadelphia; its first volume was A Short Account of the Life of Anne Camm
, a Minister of the Gospel, in the Society of Friends. Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. University of California Press. 385n110 |
Author summary | Anne Audland | |
Friends, Associates | Anne Audland | The Society of Friends
lived up to its name. AA
belonged to a network of activists who kept closely in touch, finding time in their busy lives for affectionate and detailed correspondence. |
Textual Features | Anne Audland | This increasingly popular Quaker
genre, an account of a precociously pious deathbed, was still regarded as fitting for a woman to write and publish, notwithstanding the general post-Restoration shift of opinion against women's raising their... |
Cultural formation | Anne Audland | AA
and her first husband, John Audland
, were converted to Quakerism
by George Fox
. 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. |
politics | Anne Audland | |
Reception | Isabella Banks | Nobody expects a lady to be familiar with military details, but it is only reasonable that when she ventures on the topic, she should possess, at all events, elementary knowledge of the subject, Athenæum. J. Lection. 2603 (1877): 336 |
Cultural formation | Emilie Barrington |
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