Society of Friends

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.

More commented, I perceive and bless God for it, that my Lady Conway was my Lady Conway to her Last Breath. As a Quaker she wrote a codicil to her will, revoking her order...

Her death was reported to the Society of Friends in England by James Lancaster , who provided a loving presence for her at the end.

KEI was buried in the churchyard of St Peter's Church, St Mary Bourne, Hampshire. After the funeral, the Society of Friends held a short service at the graveside, at which George, her husband of...

EA died on her Quaker missionary journey around Ireland, at a Friend's house in County Carlow.

SH , religiously awakened by a dangerous brush with smallpox, converted from Anglicanism and joined the Society of Friends .

ASB 's family background is English, middle-class, and Anglican . Initially, her mother was an atheist and her father took the children to an Anglican church, but both parents held Quaker values, and eventually they...

EAD came from an upper-middle-class, Liberal, Welsh, presumably white family. Her paternal grandfather had been a Quaker , but he had left the Society of Friends to marry a non-Quaker woman. Their children were born...

MS became a Unitarian like John Taylor before she married him. It has been said that she followed him again in his further change of religious affiliation, becoming a Quaker in 1790.

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.

Catherine Payton (later CP ) prayed, in our little meeting at Dudley, that she might become a Quaker minister.

WP writes about her Quaker forebears, of great-grandparents who lived in middle-class comfort in villages since swallowed by urban encroachment.

EJ was born into the white middle class. She described the family in which she grew up ashalf-English and three-quarters Viennese. She spoke German at home with her family until the age of...

She left the Dublin cousin because she hated his Quaker religion. Naturally vivacious, this teenaged widow found her cousin's gloomy sense of sorrow and conviction, and his disapproval of singing and dancing more than...

Although SG was born in Ireland, her parents were English, stemming from propertied and professional families respectively. Memoirist Helen C. Black described her as coming alike on each side from a race of artistic...