Corfield, Kenneth. “Elizabeth Heyrick: Radical Quaker”. Religion in the Lives of English Women, 1760-1930, edited by Gail Malmgreen, Indiana University Press, pp. 41-67.
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Cultural formation | Mary Agnes Hamilton | |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Heyrick | EH
became a Quaker
, and began to dress in plain Quaker style. Corfield, Kenneth. “Elizabeth Heyrick: Radical Quaker”. Religion in the Lives of English Women, 1760-1930, edited by Gail Malmgreen, Indiana University Press, pp. 41-67. 42 Beale, Catherine Hutton, editor. Catherine Hutton and Her Friends. Cornish Brothers. 195 |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Heyrick | EH
, who already dressed from choice like a Quaker, wrote to the Society of Friends
about admisssion. Aucott, Shirley. Women of Courage, Vision and Talent: lives in Leicester 1780 to 1925. Shirley Aucott. 121 |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Heyrick | She was born a Dissenter
and until her marriage attended the Presbyterian
church in East Bond Street, Leicester. John Wesley
visited the Coltman household during her youth. Later, during her widowhood, she became a Quaker
. Beale, Catherine Hutton, editor. Catherine Hutton and Her Friends. Cornish Brothers. 61 Aucott, Shirley. Women of Courage, Vision and Talent: lives in Leicester 1780 to 1925. Shirley Aucott. 121 |
politics | Elizabeth Heyrick | They got up at 3 a.m. and walked three miles to Bonsall, to canvass local gentlemen against this sporting event. They bought the bull after failing to persuade the gentlemen. Two years later they went... |
Travel | Elizabeth Heyrick | EH
took to spending her summers in the countryside outside Leicester, living solely on potatoes in a shepherd's cottage with a view to experiencing the lifestyle of subsistence labourers in Ireland. Corfield, Kenneth. “Elizabeth Heyrick: Radical Quaker”. Religion in the Lives of English Women, 1760-1930, edited by Gail Malmgreen, Indiana University Press, pp. 41-67. 53 |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Heyrick | She does not eschew politics on account of her readers' youth, but delivers an anti-war and anti-imperial message: The finest sight that could possibly be exhibited to me on earth, would be not a great... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Hincks | The obscure EH
published her only known work, The Poor Widows [sic] Mite, a long poem written in justification of the Meetings of the Society of Friends
, which is interesting for its distinctively female imagery. 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. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Hincks | EH
's short introductory poem, The Widows Suite, seeking approval from a friend named T. S., exemplifies her somewhat tortured inversions of natural word-order: Moreover I not willing am / that Truth at all... |
politics | Elizabeth Hooton | |
Material Conditions of Writing | Elizabeth Hooton | False Prophets and False Teachers Described was printed at London, bearing the authorial names of six Quakers
including EH
, Mary Fisher
, and Thomas Aldam
, all imprisoned in York Castle. Hooton's... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Hooton | Quaker
minister William Simpson
, who had died in Barbados on 8 December 1670, was commemorated in A Short Relation of his life and death, including a testimony by EH
. English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/. |
Author summary | Elizabeth Hooton | EH
, the earliest of the female Quaker
writers, left a printed prophecy, petition, and testimony, as well as a manuscript attack on colonial settlements in New England. Literary historian Phyllis Mack
observes that... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Hooton | Elizabeth was born to a Baptist
family, and was very active within the movement. She was already an established preacher well before she became perhaps the first person to join George Fox
in the embryonic... |
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. 127-8 |
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