Society of Friends

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...

From the views expressed in her novels, EBL appears to have been an Anglican of Evangelical outlook and Quaker sympathies.

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

Her family were Quakers , said to be in humble life, which suggests that the school where the father taught was an unpretentious one for children of the local poor.