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Society of Friends
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Author summary | Anne Whitehead | |
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... |
Author summary | Dorothy White | DW
was one of the most prolific of the seventeenth-century Quaker
women pamphleteers (with twenty texts), apart from the more famous Margaret Fell
(whose texts are on average longer than hers). She was an incisive... |
Cultural formation | Dorothy White | She was a presumably English Quaker
; nothing is known of her social background. By the end of her life she held millenarian beliefs. |
Occupation | Dorothy White | DW
worked for her faith as a minister and preacher for the Society of Friends
. |
politics | Dorothy White | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Dorothy White | She writes here as a millenarian, who expects the conversion of the Jews and the Second Coming of Christ. She opposes the bureaucratization of the Quaker movement
. Prophets, she says, have no regard to... |
death | Dorothy White | DW
died of a fever in London, according to early records, not long after her last published appeal to Quakers
not to forget their heroic and radical past. 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. |
Textual Production | Dorothy White | |
Cultural formation | Anna Letitia Waring | ALW
converted from the Society of Friends
to Anglicanism
(with her parents' consent); she was baptised into the Church of England at St Martin's Church, Winnall, near Winchester in Hampshire. Talbot, Mary S. In Remembrance of Anna Letitia Waring. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 6 Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research. 240: 306 |
Cultural formation | Anna Letitia Waring | ALW
was brought as a Quaker
. Both her parents were members of the Society of Friends
, to which her family had belonged for generations. They were also proud of their Welsh ancestry. 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. Talbot, Mary S. In Remembrance of Anna Letitia Waring. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 4 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Letitia Waring | ALW
's uncle Samuel Miller Waring
had left the Society of Friends
to join the Anglican Church, and had published Sacred Melodies (1826), a collection of hymns. Through her uncle's example she was strengthened in... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Doreen Wallace | DW
writes that she has a grievance, since she herself is experiencing oppression over tithes. She makes no claim to omniscience, broad-mindedness, or even good temper. But she is inspired by the courage and conviction... |
Cultural formation | Priscilla Wakefield | She came from a distinguished English Quaker
family of the middle class. |
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
.
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.
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.
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