Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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Textual Production | Mary Penington | MP
's surviving letters in general concern themselves with practical and ideological issues in the Society of Friends
. She strongly supports the practice of separate women's meetings. |
Textual Production | Margaret Fell | MF
composed her latest known work, An Epistle to Friends, urging the Society
not to isolate themselves from society by adopting the distinctive dress with which they nevertheless proceeded to identify themselves. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Production | Mary Mollineux | |
Textual Production | Kathleen Caffyn | As Iota, KC
published A Quaker
Grandmother, which Gail Cunningham
calls an utterly innocuous little Cunningham, Gail. The New Woman and the Victorian Novel. Macmillan. 78 Sutherland, John. The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction. Longman. under Iota |
Textual Production | Dorothy Richardson | DR
's first book, The Quakers Past and Present, was published; it reflects her admiration for the Quakers'
affirmative perspective on life and their egalitarian attitudes towards women. Richardson, Dorothy. “Chronology; Editorial Commentary”. Windows on Modernism: Selected Letters of Dorothy Richardson, edited by Gloria G. Fromm, University of Georgia Press, p. xxix - xxxiii; various pages. xxxi Fromm, Gloria G. Dorothy Richardson: A Biography. University of Illinois Press. 60-1, 76 |
Textual Production | Mary Penington | MP
's manuscripts survive at Friends House in London (headquarters of the Society of Friends
) and in other Quaker archives. A body of critical work is accumulating around her, and her writing is now... |
Textual Production | Olaudah Equiano | Equiano presumably had a hand in composing an address to London Quakers from Africans living in the city, which he and others presented in October 1785. The address thanks Quaker Gentlemen for the publication of... |
Textual Production | Dorothy Richardson | DR
's second book about the Quakers
was published: an anthology derived from the writings of the movement's early leader, Gleanings from the Work of George Fox. Fromm, Gloria G. Dorothy Richardson: A Biography. University of Illinois Press. 74, 76 |
Textual Production | Laura Ormiston Chant | As a well-known public speaker and advocate for many causes, LOC
contributed articles on a number of other topical concerns. In The Heart of Armenia, for example, she recounts her journey across Bulgaria to... |
Textual Production | Dorothy White | |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Hooton | Through the letters that she wrote from prison in 1652, and of which she kept archived copies, EH
helped (together with Margaret Fell
, who became keeping copies at the same time) to set what... |
Textual Production | Anna Trapnel | AT
is said to have spoken a series of doggerel verses, many of them directed against the Quakers
, which an amanuensis took down from her lips. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Textual Production | J. K. Rowling | The two epigraphs inserted at the beginning of this final novel added an element of seriousness to the work: the first is from Aeschylus
and the second from the seventeenth-century QuakerWilliam Penn
. A... |
Textual Production | Anne Audland | AA
contributed a testimony on her late first husband
, and a letter to him, to the collaborative Quaker
text The Memory of the Righteous Revived. 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. |
Textual Production | Anne Docwra | Docwra wrote to rebuke Bugg
, who had written against her that April a tirade entitled Jezebel Withstood, and Her Daughter Anne Dockwra, Publickly Reprov'd. He incorporated this ad feminam attack in two works... |
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