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Connections Author name Excerpt
Publishing Margaret Fell
MF says that she personally travelled two hundred miles to deliver into the king 's own hand one of her Restoration tracts, A Declaration and an Information from us the People of God called Quakers
Cultural formation Margaret Fell
MF and her family were converted to Quakerism by George Fox .
Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan.
x
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Margaret Fell
This tract opens in hard-hitting style: We who are the People of God called Quakers , who are hated and despised, and every where spoken against, as people not fit to live. . ....
politics Margaret Fell
MF set to work to establish the Kendal Fund to help support travelling Quaker ministers and their families; she enlisted the help of locals George Taylor or Tayler and Thomas Willan .
Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan.
xi, 153
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Margaret Fell
In this tract MF argues against the increasing emphasis on a specialised Quaker dress, grey in colour. She writes that young Friends . . . can soon get into an outward Garb, to be all...
politics Margaret Fell
MF , on her first visit to London, presented the earliest formal Quaker peace testimony to Charles II , whom she went on to visit several times more.
Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan.
136-7
Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. University of California Press.
220
politics Margaret Fell
Arrested in her turn at Holker, MF was imprisoned in Lancaster Castle for her Quaker activism.
Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan.
xii, xiii
Textual Production Margaret Fell
MF addressed the restored monarch boldly and directly in a number of works; she was the first to explain to him the non-violent nature of Quakerism .
The date is given on A Declaration and...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Celia Fiennes
CF is interested less in appearances than how things work. On her first journey she made this observation of the spire of Salisbury Cathedral: being so high it appeares to us below as sharpe...
Travel Mary Fisher
From BarbadosMF arrived by sea at Boston, Massachusetts, with Anne Austin , the first Quakers to proselytise there.
Larson, Rebecca. Daughters of Light. University of North Carolina Press.
232
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Travel Mary Fisher
The year after her hostile reception in Boston, Massachusetts, MF left England again with a small group of other Quakers , apparently in the beginning headed for Jerusalem.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Fisher
MF (who had once answered a magistrate enquiring her husband's name that she had no husband but Jesus Christ)
Peters, Kate. Print Culture and the Early Quakers. Cambridge University Press.
76
married another notable Quaker spokesman, a ship's captain by trade, William Bayly .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Material Conditions of Writing Mary Fisher
MF , newly returned to England from Barbados, wrote a letter of encouragement and exhortation to Barbados Friends .
Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. University of California Press.
169 and n14
Author summary Mary Fisher
MF , one of the Valiant Sixty (that is, the earliest Quakers or members of the Society of Friends to undertake preaching journeys abroad), remained unpublished except for some strongly politicized letters and a one-sixth...
Cultural formation Mary Fisher
It is not known whether she belonged to the Church of England or some other sect before she joined the Society of Friends (in earlier 1652, along with her employers).
Peters, Kate. Print Culture and the Early Quakers. Cambridge University Press.
37
Her early conversion to...

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