Reilly, Matthew. “The Life and Literary Fictions of May Drummond, Quaker Female Preacher”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.
28
, No. 2, pp. 287-12. 309-10
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | May Drummond | William Miller
sent MD
a letter on behalf of the Edinburgh Meeting of the Society of Friends
which constructively dismissed her from the Society. Reilly, Matthew. “The Life and Literary Fictions of May Drummond, Quaker Female Preacher”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol. 28 , No. 2, pp. 287-12. 309-10 |
Cultural formation | May Drummond | The Gracechurch Street, London, Meeting of the Society of Friends
decided to expel MD
from the Society. Reilly, Matthew. “The Life and Literary Fictions of May Drummond, Quaker Female Preacher”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol. 28 , No. 2, pp. 287-12. 306, 310 |
Textual Production | May Drummond | MD
, travelling in Devon, preached a sermon about the Inner Light; the manuscript, now in the library of Friends' House
in London, is entitled May Drummond's Account of Conscience and Account of... |
Material Conditions of Writing | May Drummond | Disowned by the Society of Friends
in both Edinburgh and London, MD
issued a self-defensive broadsheet: To the Meeting Assembled in the Chamber at Gracechurch-Street, which appears to be her final publication. Drummond, May. To the Meeting assembled in the Chamber at Gracechurch-street. title-page Reilly, Matthew. “The Life and Literary Fictions of May Drummond, Quaker Female Preacher”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol. 28 , No. 2, pp. 287-12. 310 and n57 |
Cultural formation | May Drummond | Born into an upwardly-mobile Scottish bourgeois family and brought up in the Church of Scotland
, MD
was about twenty-one when she left the church, gave up their Society and Ceremonies (without, she wrote indignantly... |
Occupation | May Drummond | She was called to the ministry around 1734, which, Thomas Story reported, caused renewed pain to her family. Story, Thomas. 714 |
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... |
Textual Features | May Drummond | MD
expatiates on the internal Dictates of the Holy Spirit, Drummond, May. Internal Revelation the Source of Saving Knowledge. i |
Residence | George Egerton | |
Cultural formation | Sarah Stickney Ellis | |
Education | Sarah Stickney Ellis | She later spent the years 1813-16 at a Quaker
school at Ackworth. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Production | Olaudah Equiano | Equiano presumably had a hand in composing an address to London Quakers from Africans living in the city, which he and others presented in October 1785. The address thanks Quaker Gentlemen for the publication of... |
Cultural formation | Katharine Evans | KE
grew up an Anglican
, but was clearly a religious seeker, since she joined the Baptists
, then the Independents
, before becoming one of the Society of Friends
very soon after its inception... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Katharine Evans | KE
's husband was John Evans, a wealthy man from the area of Bath. Writing to him from a foreign prison after a separation of more than two years she calls him my right... |
Employer | Katharine Evans | Her extensive travel during the 1650s (through all the component parts of Britain) was undertaken in the course of witnessing to her Quaker
faith. Her ministry extended to distant parts of Britain and later overseas. Graham, Elspeth et al., editors. Her Own Life. Routledge. 118 |
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