Society of Friends

She prefaced these poems on religious and non-religious subjects with an account of the Quakers .

Mary Shackleton (later ML ) visited London with her father , who was going to attend the annual Quaker meeting there.

Mary Shackleton married William Leadbeater , who had become a farmer when his joining the Quakers closed to him the career he had intended to pursue.

ML continued her life-writing project with Biographical Notices of Members of the Society of Friends , who were Resident in Ireland.

ML 's name is identified with that of the Quaker village of Ballitore in County Kildare, whose cultural historian she was throughout the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Though this Irish author wrote...

Mary Shakleton (later ML ) was brought up in an Irish Quaker family of the middle class.

Her half-brother, another Abraham , who took over the school when their father retired, was a man of deep thought, immense conscientiousness, and oppositional temperament. His pacifist convictions caused him to strike a number of...

Mary Shackleton first met her future husband when he came as a boy to Ballitore School in 1777, brought there by his Anglican clergyman guardian and a friend who was a Roman Catholic priest. This...

HK converted from Methodism to Quakerism , to which she had been leaning for some time; she now applied to join the monthly meeting at Balby near Doncaster.

In the same year that she became a QuakerHK gave up using produce grown by slaves: that is, she joined the sugar boycott which was gathering strength among women.

HK wrote in her diary: Are not Friends peculiarly called upon to act as school missionaries?—that is to work for African education.

She was brought up as an Anglican , but converted first to Wesleyan Methodism (in which her mother had shown some interest) and later to Quakerism .

During this same winter she was urging fellow-Quakers to strike an informal committee that could publicise her concerns about Africa: the result was a Committee for African Instruction .

During her interval of time in England in 1828-30, HK spoke to meetings of Friends about her anti-slavery concerns. Disregarding difference of faith, she quoted Hannah More in these talks.

Later in life she involved herself with the Quakers or Society of Friends . Diana Maltz notes that although she was not a Quaker herself, she was closely allied with their institutional activities and contributed...