Society of Friends

Born an English middle-class Quaker , she emigrated, probably as an adolescent, and lived her mature life as an American.

Mary Ann Shadd came of mixed white and black (or, in her own word, colored) American heritage on both maternal and paternal sides. Her paternal great-grandfather came originally from Germany. The family was economically...

Born into the English professional class, RS related closely to her American forebears. She and her sister were baptised as Catholics but brought up as Quakers .

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...

She was born into a white and wealthy English family. It had Quaker roots on both sides, but there are questions about whether or not she was brought up in the Society of Friends. The...

MAH 's forebears were Quakers on the maternal side, and on both sides soberly respectable and artistic, but her Irish Home-Ruler grandfather, who had joined Friends after his marriage, had been expelled by the Friends...

Born in the English gentry and brought up an Anglican , she became a Quaker in middle age. After this she quickly became a leader in the movement. Her class status, unusual among Quaker preachers...

MM came from northern England, was presumably white, and probably sprang from the middling ranks into which she married. In religion she was a Quaker all her life, since her husband, a fellow member of...

Trained at home in prayers learned by heart, with some scope for improvising, and given a religious grounding in Anglican ism at school,ES realised that she was not an irreligious person only...

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

RS was white and English. She wrote that she came of a dynasty of doctors on both sides, with a scattering of farmers and merchants—the latter mostly Quakers . If it had not been...

AA and her first husband, John Audland , were converted to Quakerism by George Fox .

Born into an English gentry family, AD was an Anglican during the Interregnum, when Anglicans were persecuted and reduced to holding their services in field conventicles. Her husband joined the Society of Friends in...

JF 's father, a former Quaker , was cast out by the Society of Friends when he married an Anglican wife.

EH became a Quaker , and began to dress in plain Quaker style.