Society of Friends

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...

She was born into the Irish cottager or labouring class and into the Society of Friends . The family had a long tradition of Quaker belief and activism. She later observed that her father's cottage...

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...

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...

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...

Although her parents were religious, the young MP had a disposition to keep company unrestrained by the cross of Christ. She lived for many years in disobedience to his holy will, repeatedly hardening her...

While her husband was going though a series of shifts in his political and moral thinking, FB in 1934 became a Quaker . Her reason for this was the Quakers' anti-war stance.

Her father was a tenant farmer in the East Riding, and SSE later celebrated agricultural labour in one of her poems. She was brought up as a Quaker , but later rejected the Society...

ALW converted from the Society of Friends to Anglicanism (with her parents' consent); she was baptised into the Church of England at St Martin's Church, Winnall, near Winchester in Hampshire.

She was said to have been well-connected, though whether this was through her parents or her husband is likewise unclear. Her contacts suggest that she was at least at ease with the upper classes, and...

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...

This was seven years after they had met at AMS 's home in Utrecht, when Labadie first visited the city. The Labadists rejected the normally accepted outward forms of religious practice in...

CH grew up in a Dissenting family which suffered for its beliefs. She had a number of Quaker friends, to whom she unembarrassedly used thou and thee. She wrote that she almost became a...

She had a final struggle to undertake before, while visiting her Quaker relatives at Philadelphia, she finally humbled her pride by joining the Society of Friends , which she had for so long despised...

EH lived to the age of about thirty without questioning her religion, or those parts of the Bible which she could understand. Meeting with earnest Evangelicals would leave her at a loss what to think...