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Society of Friends
Connections
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Cultural formation | Sarah Grand | 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... |
Cultural formation | Bathsheba Bowers | |
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
. |
Cultural formation | Emma Marshall | She was born into the English middle class. Her mother had been a Quaker
, who was disowned by the Friends on her marriage to a non-Quaker, but received back into the Society after the... |
Cultural formation | Marie Stopes | MS
seems also to have reacted against her mother's inculcation of the hellfire beliefs of the particularly harsh brand of Presbyterianism
associated with the Wee Free or Free Church of Scotland
. Commire, Anne, and Deborah Klezmer, editors. Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Yorkin Publications, 1999–2002, 17 vols. Maude, Aylmer. The Authorized Life of Marie C. Stopes. Williams and Norgate, 1924. 185 |
Cultural formation | Virginia Woolf | VW
was the daughter not only of an educated man, Woolf, Virginia. Three Guineas. Hogarth Press, 1986. 10 |
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 | Bathsheba Bowers | BB
became something of a recluse in Philadelphia. According to her niece Ann Bolton, she was prone to reading the Bible with the intention of finding fault with it, Mulford, Carla et al., editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Gale Research, 1999. |
Cultural formation | Harriet Corp | |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Stirredge | ES
says the Lord began to work in her heart, preparing a conversion experience, when the QuakersJohn Audland
and John Camm
shamed her about her fine clothes. Stirredge, Elizabeth. Strength in Weakness Manifest. J. Sowle, 1711. 15 |
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 | Emilie Barrington | |
Cultural formation | Mary Sewell | Both of MS
's parents were members of the Society of Friends
, as were her husband's family. She remained a Friend, or Quaker, until 1835, when she joined the Church of England
after flirting... |
Cultural formation | Mary Ann Kelty | MAK
thought that the existential angst she suffered during her childhood was unique until she read Margaret Fuller
's Memoirs. Kelty, Mary Ann. Reminiscences of Thought and Feeling. W. Pickering, 1852. 134 |
Cultural formation | Dora Greenwell | 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... |
Timeline
1670: Members of a London jury headed by Edward...
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1670
Members of a London jury headed by Edward Bushel
(called by a recent commentator disinterested . . . property-owners) professed themselves willing to go to jail rather than to convict against their consciences.
Sedley, Stephen. “From Victim to Suspect”. London Review of Books, 21 July 2005, pp. 15-17.
15
16 March 1670: The borough council of Aberdeen, finding...
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18 July 1671: The Quaker women's meeting, begun by Ann...
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18 July 1671
The Quaker
women's meeting, begun by Ann Stevens
and Damaris Sanders
, was held at Priestwood near Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire: it has been called the first documented women's meeting.
Feminist Companion Archive.
October 1671: The Swarthmoor Women's Monthly Meeting was...
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October 1671
The Swarthmoor Women's Monthly Meeting was instituted (perhaps the first women's meeting of Quakers
outside London to become permanent, though the Great Missenden meeting had first met by July).
Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan, 1994.
xiv
November 1671: The Quaker Thomas Milne of Aberdeen, who...
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November 1671
The QuakerThomas Milne
of Aberdeen, who had buried his dead child in a kail-yard in preference to the Presbyterian grave-yard, was punished by a sentence of exile, closing his shop, and removing the body.
Walker, William. The Bards of Bon-Accord, 1375-1860. Edmond and Spark, 1887.
92-3
1672: A Quaker committee set up by the first Yearly...
Women writers item
1672
A Quakercommittee
set up by the first Yearly Meeting began the work which resulted in decisions about members' publications: to vet them for acceptability, to finance, edit and distribute them, and to archive them.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
157
Late March 1673: The Test Act barred from office (even local...
National or international item
Late March 1673
The Test Act barred from office (even local office) anyone who declined to take the sacrament of the Church of England
and an oath against the Catholic
doctrine of Transubstantiation.
Bryant, Arthur. King Charles II. Longmans, Green, 1931.
226-7
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
326
15 July 1673: The Publishing Committee of the Society of...
Women writers item
15 July 1673
The Publishing Committee
of the Society of Friends
made the decision to archive two copies of every book published by a Quaker.
Friends House Staff Member,. Telephone conversation about the library at Friends House, London, with Isobel Grundy. 1998.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
145ff
From September 1673: The Quakers set up a weekly Morning Meeting,...
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From September 1673
The Quakers
set up a weekly Morning Meeting, in London changed with vetting texts submitted for publication.
Bracken, James K., and Joel Silver, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 170. Gale Research, 1996.
252
1677: By this year the Society of Friends included...
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1677
By this year the Society of Friends
included prosperous merchants and traders in all the major centres in England and Ireland. At least fourteen substantial London merchants were Quakers, which provided a new motive...
January 1678: An unidentified woman clerk thought it worth...
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January 1678
An unidentified woman clerk thought it worth while to write the history of the beginnings of the separate meeting of women Quakers
at Priestwood near Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire.
Feminist Companion Archive.
1678: Quaker theologian Robert Barclay's Apology...
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1678
Quaker
theologian Robert Barclay
's Apology for the True Christian Divinity was first published in English, by the Sowle Press
.
Bracken, James K., and Joel Silver, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 170. Gale Research, 1996.
256
1679: The Licensing Act of 1662 lapsed; penalties...
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1679
The Licensing Act of 1662 lapsed; penalties being no longer in force, Quaker
printers began putting their names on the title-pages issuing from their shops.
Bracken, James K., and Joel Silver, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 170. Gale Research, 1996.
249
December 1681: The Privy Council moved against Quakers and...
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December 1681
The Privy Council
moved against Quakers
and Dissenters by enforcing past orders against them, like the Clarendon Code, which dated 1661 and the few years thereafter.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
153
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