Society of Friends

MS became a Unitarian like John Taylor before she married him. It has been said that she followed him again in his further change of religious affiliation, becoming a Quaker in 1790.

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...

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...

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 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...

CS 's family was church-going, Methodist . For a while she attended a Quaker meeting, but by the 1980s she described herself as notreligious.

HK converted from Methodism to Quakerism , to which she had been leaning for some time; she now applied to join the monthly meeting at Balby near Doncaster.