Society of Friends

Connections

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Family and Intimate relationships Isabella Ormston Ford
IOF 's father, Robert Lawson Ford , was a solicitor and landowner, and a Quaker who belonged to the radical wing of the Liberal Party . He supported local Quaker MP John Bright in his...
Family and Intimate relationships Constance Smedley
They had known each other as students at Birmingham Art School, and met again in 1907 when he designed the decor for a special dinner which CS gave at the Lyceum Club .
Smedley, Constance, and Maxwell Armfield. Crusaders. Chatto & Windus, 1912, x, 416 pp.
179-83
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Scott
John Taylor had been a classical tutor in the Daventry Academy and a minister in the English Presbyterian church. By the time of his marriage his search for the truth had led him to join...
Family and Intimate relationships Eleanor Rathbone
ER 's father was the sixth William Rathbone in a Lancashire family which was Quaker , Unitarian , Liberal and philanthropic. For six generations this family had been the epitome of fair trading, plain speaking...
Friends, Associates Mary Peisley
MP formed close relationships with many of her fellow Quakers, as it was the practice of the Society to do, by means of sharing work and travel with them. She mentions particularly in her letters...
Friends, Associates Anne Conway
AC corresponded with and was visited by many leading members of the Society of Friends , among them Keith , Robert Barclay , Anne and George Whitehead , Isaac Penington , William Penn , and...
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.
Friends, Associates Katharine Evans
Among other warm relationships she formed with fellow members of the Society of Friends , the most important was with Sarah Chevers or Cheevers , with whom she shared voyages and persecution. Chevers, about ten...
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Hooton
Her associates among the Society of Friends included the eminent, like George Fox , and the obscure, like Joan Brooksop .
Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. University of California Press, 1992.
127-8
Joan Vokins , who was thirty years younger, sent Hooton her dear love...
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.
Intertextuality and Influence Rebecca Travers
This was designed to refute controversial texts published against Quaker doctrine by Robert Cobbet (A Word to the Upright, 1668) and Elizabeth Atkinson (Breif [sic] and Plain Discovery of the Labourers in...
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Hooton
EH 's thinking helped shape that of George Fox and thus of the Quaker movement as a whole. Emily Manners published a booklet about her for the Friends Historical Society in 1914.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Intertextuality and Influence Katharine Evans
The reprintings show the impact that this text had on contemporary Quakers . Anthologists Elspeth Graham , Elaine Hobby , Hilary Hinds , and Helen Wilcox call it as much a text of love as of resistance.
Graham, Elspeth et al., editors. Her Own Life. Routledge, 1989.
119
Literary responses Amelia Opie
Response was tepid in England. The Literary Gazette called this book by one of its long-time favourites a milk-and-water work, poised between Quakerism and satire on the fashionable world, and more successful as morality than...
Literary responses Sarah Chapone
Mary Delany , who read this work in manuscript, called it ingenious (in that word's old-fashioned meaning of learned or scholarly), but thought that the legal aspect still needed revision.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
The book received praise from...

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