Society of Friends

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation Mary Ann Shadd Cary
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...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Ashbridge
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...
Cultural formation Carol Shields
CS 's family was church-going, Methodist . For a while she attended a Quaker meeting, but by the 1980s she described herself as notreligious.
Wachtel, Eleanor, editor. “Carol Shields”. More Writers and Company: New Conversations with CBC Radio’s Eleanor Wachtel, Vintage Canada, 1997, pp. 36-56.
38,50
Cultural formation Hannah Kilham
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.
Dickson, Mora. The Powerful Bond: Hannah Kilham 1774-1832. Dobson, 1980.
61
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 Elizabeth Heyrick
EH , who already dressed from choice like a Quaker, wrote to the Society of Friends about admisssion.
Aucott, Shirley. Women of Courage, Vision and Talent: lives in Leicester 1780 to 1925. Shirley Aucott, 2008.
121
Cultural formation Margaret Fell
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...
Cultural formation Priscilla Wakefield
She came from a distinguished English Quaker family of the middle class.
Cultural formation Kathleen E. Innes
Her family was English, professional, and well-off.
Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta, 1995.
10
As an adult she became, like her husband, a Quaker
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...
death Kathleen E. Innes
KEI was buried in the churchyard of St Peter's Church, St Mary Bourne, Hampshire. After the funeral, the Society of Friends held a short service at the graveside, at which George, her husband of...
death Anne Conway
More commented, I perceive and bless God for it, that my Lady Conway was my Lady Conway to her Last Breath.
Conway, Anne et al. The Conway Letters. Editor Hutton, Sarah, Revised, Clarendon Press, 1992.
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As a Quaker she wrote a codicil to her will, revoking her order...

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