Society of Friends

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation Priscilla Wakefield
She came from a distinguished English Quaker family of the middle class.
Cultural formation Mary Peisley
MP regretted the passing of the days when the Friends had been, although persecuted, more steady, pure, and active in their faith. In her husband's words: She mourned for the obvious declension of our society...
Cultural formation Anne Audland
AA and her first husband, John Audland , were converted to Quakerism by George Fox .
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, 1990.
Cultural formation Anne Docwra
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.
Docwra, Anne. The Second Part of an Apostate-Conscience Exposed. 1700.
21
Her husband joined the Society of Friends in...
Cultural formation Jessie Fothergill
JF 's father, a former Quaker , was cast out by the Society of Friends when he married an Anglican wife.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Scholar Helen Debenham notes, citing correspondence with Ian Fell , who is writing a...
Cultural formation L. S. Bevington
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...
Cultural formation Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck
MAS was an earnest religious seeker. Brought up in the Society of Friends, she had years of doubt, of misery, of darkness, and became successively a Quaker , a Methodist , and finally a Moravian
Cultural formation Sophia Hume
SH , religiously awakened by a dangerous brush with smallpox, converted from Anglicanism and joined the Society of Friends .
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, 1990.
Cultural formation Priscilla Wakefield
A loyal, life-long member of the Society of Friends , PW was anything but narrow in her beliefs and practice. In middle life she wrote that without disparaging the value of [t]rue religion, she desired...
Cultural formation Catherine Phillips
She was a middle-class Englishwoman, a Quaker both by birth and conversion.
Cultural formation Dorothy White
She was a presumably English Quaker ; nothing is known of her social background. By the end of her life she held millenarian beliefs.
Cultural formation Winifred Peck
WP writes about her Quaker forebears, of great-grandparents who lived in middle-class comfort in villages since swallowed by urban encroachment.
Peck, Winifred. Home for the Holidays. Faber and Faber, 1955.
19-20
Cultural formation Elizabeth Jolley
EJ was born into the white middle class. She described the family in which she grew up ashalf-English and three-quarters Viennese.
qtd. in
Daniel, Helen. Liars: Australian New Novelists. Penguin, 1988.
272
She spoke German at home with her family until the age of...
Cultural formation Anne Conway
AC became a Quaker . This at first compromised her friendship with More , but he did modify his attitude to the Society of Friends as a result of her action.
Conway, Anne et al. The Conway Letters. Editor Hutton, Sarah, Revised, Clarendon Press, 1992.
434
Conway, Anne, and Henry More. “Introduction; Editorial Materials”. The Conway Letters, edited by Sarah Hutton et al., Revised, Clarendon Press, 1992, p. vii - xix; various pages.
xii
Cultural formation Anna Trapnel
She experienced a spiritual awakening after hearing a sermon by Hugh Peter when she was about nineteen, then in 1650 joined the Baptist congregation of John Simpson . Later she moved to the sect of...

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