Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Society of Friends
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Mary Scott | MS
grew up in a prosperous, middle-class household, in which religion was the centre of everyday life and activity. Most sources agree that her family were Protestant Dissenters. Though Anna Seward
said they were Anglicans |
Cultural formation | Barbara Blaugdone | BB
was converted to Quakerism
by two of the early adherents of the sect, John Audland
and John Camm
. |
Cultural formation | Eleanor Rathbone | |
Cultural formation | Sarah Grand | Though not an active member of the Church of England
, SG
did admire the Church and its role in British culture. By her late adulthood, however, she also developed an interest in certain tenets... |
Cultural formation | Valentine Ackland | As a child, VA
was a fervent Anglo-Catholic, following her mother's example. Ackland, Valentine. For Sylvia: An Honest Account. Chatto and Windus, 1985. 37, 45 Mulford, Wendy. This Narrow Place. Pandora, 1988. 233 |
Cultural formation | Isabella Ormston Ford | The Ford family did not conform to the stricter rules of the Quaker
denomination, and Isabella and her siblings were allowed to dance, paint, play instruments, and sing. The children also developed strong senses of... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Stirredge | A year later she was still seeking a mentor; but in due course she joined the Society of Friends
. After she was well established in her faith, she retained the habit of retiring alone... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Bathurst | |
Cultural formation | May Drummond | In 1759 MD
sought official permission from the Society of Friends
to travel to America and preach there. Permission was denied by William Miller
of Edinburgh, and this seems to have precipitated a movement by... |
Cultural formation | Sophia Hume | Born English and white, to a leading family in a southern city of colonial America, Sophia descended through her mother from a family of Quaker heritage. Brought up in her father's Anglican
religion, she for... |
Cultural formation | Anna Letitia Waring | 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. Talbot, Mary S. In Remembrance of Anna Letitia Waring. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1911. 6 Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research, 2001. 240: 306 |
Cultural formation | Mary Ann Kelty | MAK
thought that the existential angst she suffered during her childhood was unique until she read Margaret Fuller
's Memoirs. Kelty, Mary Ann. Reminiscences of Thought and Feeling. W. Pickering, 1852. 134 |
Cultural formation | John Bunyan | JB
's spiritual struggle dated back to his unregenerate teens. Under the influence of his first wife he began attending the establishedchurch
and developed exaggerated reverence for its priests, Bunyan, John. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners. George Larkin, 1666. 5 |
Cultural formation | Dora Greenwell | Presumably white, DG
was born into an upper-middle class family that was then comfortably off, but was financially devastated several years after her birth. Her religious allegiances present some confusion. She was brought up as... |
Cultural formation | Mary Leadbeater |
Timeline
June 1787: A report from the Yearly Meeting of Quakers...
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June 1787
A report from the Yearly Meeting of Quakers
in this and the previous month noted a growing attention in many not of our religious society to the subject of Negro slavery.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
57 (1787): 721-2
1788: The Quaker Thomas Clarkson travelled round...
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1788
The QuakerThomas Clarkson
travelled round British ports collecting evidence (in the face of obstacles and opposition) about the operations of the slave trade.
Dickson, Mora. The Powerful Bond: Hannah Kilham 1774-1832. Dobson, 1980.
91
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
11 May 1792: Edmund Burke in his Speech on the Petition...
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11 May 1792
Edmund Burke
in his Speech on the Petition of the Unitarians argued that Unitarians, who denied the doctrine of the Trinity, could not claim toleration like Catholics
, Presbyterian
s, Quakers
, and others.
De Bruyn, Frans. “Anti-Semitism, Millenarianism, and Radical Dissent in Edmund Burkes Reflections on the Revolution in FranceEighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
34
, No. 4, 1 June 2001– 2025, pp. 577-00. 595
14 June 1792: The title of radical novelist Robert Bage's...
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14 June 1792
The title of radical novelist Robert Bage
's anonymous Man As He Is, published this day, suggests the unpalatable truths revealed by reformers or satirists; it influenced later titles chosen by William Godwin
and...
1801: The Quaker Joseph Lancaster opened his non-sectarian...
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1801
The QuakerJoseph Lancaster
opened his non-sectarian Free School in Borough Road in south-east London; he soon had a thousand pupils.
Dickson, Mora. The Powerful Bond: Hannah Kilham 1774-1832. Dobson, 1980.
78-81
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
376
1808-9: Rudolph Ackermann published The Microcosm...
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1808-9
Rudolph Ackermann
published The Microcosm of London in three volumes, a remarkable collection of engraved views of life in the capital.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
1847: The Friends First Day School Association...
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1847
The Friends First Day School Association
was founded; this Quaker
organization advocated literacy training for working-class adults.
Roach, John. Social Reform in England 1780-1880. St Martin’s Press, 1978.
109
8 August 1851: The system of tithes (one-tenth of the produce...
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8 August 1851
The system of tithes (one-tenth of the produce of agricultural land paid yearly for the support of the Church of England
) was abolished at the instigation of William Blamire the younger
(1790-1862).
Maycock, Christopher. A Passionate Poet: Susanna Blamire, 1747-94: A Biography. Hypatia, 2003.
97
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Blamire
1874: The Society for the Suppression of the Opium...
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1874
The Society for the Suppression of the Opium Trade
was founded by Quakers
in Britain.
Parssinen, Terry M. Secret Passions, Secret Remedies: Narcotic Drugs in British Society 1820-1930. Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1983.
89
By September 1887: William Walker published at Aberdeen The...
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By September 1887
William Walker
published at AberdeenThe Bards of Bon-Accord, 1375-1860, a history of poetry in Aberdeenshire, which had already appeared serially in the Herald and Weekly Free Press.
The volume is dated from...
July 1921: News reached the rest of the world that the...
National or international item
July 1921
News reached the rest of the world that the harvest had failed for the fourth year in succession in Russia.
John, Angela V. Evelyn Sharp: Rebel Woman, 18691955. Manchester University Press, 2009.
127-8
1922: William Penn, the well-known London Quaker...
Women writers item
1922
William Penn, the well-known London Quaker
who emigrated to America and founded the state of Pennsylvania, was the subject of a play by Mary Lucy Pendered
.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Saturday 19 June 1926: About a hundred thousand participants of...
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Saturday 19 June 1926
About a hundred thousand participants of the Peacemakers' Pilgrimage (all wearing blue armbands showing the white dove of peace and the word Pax) converged on Hyde Park in London.
Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta, 1995.
85
Ducey, Mitchell F., editor. Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom Papers, 1915-1978. Microfilming Corporation of America, 1983.
3: 311
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