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Connections Author name Excerpt
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 Setting Edna Lyall
The story revolves around Jacobite plots and persecution of Quakers in the period when Queen Mary II was Regent for her husband, William , during his absences abroad. It introduces actual characters like the former...
Literary Setting Rebecca Harding Davis
The story presents the routine of working life for Welsh immigrants to the USA; in it RHD seeks to articulate the impact of industrialism on the proletariat.
Pfaelzer, Jean. Parlor Radical: Rebecca Harding Davis and the Origins of American Social Realism. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996.
26-7
Deborah Wolfe, a hunchbacked textile worker (a...
Material Conditions of Writing Barbara Blaugdone
She was at this time probably a widow, and an active Quaker minister and missionary.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Material Conditions of Writing Mary Howitt
By about the age of fifteen Mary Botham (later MH ) had decided that she wished to become a writer. She faced an uphill struggle since her strict Quaker upbringing denied her all contact with...
Material Conditions of Writing Mary Fisher
MF , newly returned to England from Barbados, wrote a letter of encouragement and exhortation to Barbados Friends .
Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. University of California Press, 1992.
169 and n14
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...
Material Conditions of Writing Mary Penington
MP , already securely a Quaker , wrote her first autobiographical text: A Brief Account of Some of My Exercises from My Childhood . . ..
Skidmore, Gil, and Mary Penington. “Preface”. Experiences in the Life of Mary Penington, edited by Norman Penney and Norman Penney, Friends Historical Society, 1992, p. vii - xvii.
ix
Material Conditions of Writing May Drummond
Disowned by the Society of Friends in both Edinburgh and London, MD issued a self-defensive broadsheet: To the Meeting Assembled in the Chamber at Gracechurch-Street, which appears to be her final publication.
Drummond, May. To the Meeting assembled in the Chamber at Gracechurch-street. 1766.
title-page
Reilly, Matthew. “The Life and Literary Fictions of May Drummond, Quaker Female Preacher”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.
28
, No. 2, Nov. 2015, pp. 287-12.
310 and n57
Material Conditions of Writing Amelia Opie
When she entered the Society of Friends , AO joined a group which was deeply suspicious of fiction and felt that writing ought to concentrate on truth-telling and moral instruction. Opie tried to conform, and...
Material Conditions of Writing Amelia Opie
This was the first book that she published as a Quaker , and to people in the Society of Friends she justified the practice of fiction by reminding them of the parables of Jesus. Though...
Occupation Evelyn Sharp
ES worked at the Quaker headquarters in postwar Berlin.
Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head, 1933.
176
Occupation Sarah Grand
As Mayoress of Bath, SG presided over a meeting at the Bath Guildhall that was held to raise support for the International Society of Friends ' appeal for donations to provide food for starving Germans.
Grand, Sarah. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand: Volume 1. Editor Heilmann, Ann, Routledge, 2000.
564
Occupation Hester Biddle
HB began her Quaker ministry of travelling and preaching.
Rickman, Lydia L. “Esther Biddle and Her Mission to Louis XIV”. Friends Historical Society Journal, Vol.
47
, 1955, pp. 38-45.
40
Occupation Dorothy White
DW worked for her faith as a minister and preacher for the Society of Friends .

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