Society of Friends

Born as an American colonist to parents who had themselves emigrated from England because of their Quaker faith, she was, she says, not a gentlewoman by birth. She defined a gentlewoman as one with no...

Born in the yeoman class, she was brought up an Anglican . In youth and for years after her marriage she felt spiritually lost, as a ship without an anchor among the merciless waves.

The family was somewhat rigidly Quaker . As a girl MH entertained rebellious feelings about the severity of their religion, their ban on stylish clothes and artistic beauty. Early in her marriage she felt drawn...

IM was born Irish but grew up in England from babyhood, with holidays in Ireland. Her mother's family, with a history as Anglo-Irish adherents of the Church of Ireland , had come down in the...

AC belonged by birth and marriage to the English upper classes, though many of her friends and associates came from signficantly lower down the social scale. Her rationalism and quietism made her an eccentric Anglican

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). Her early conversion to...

Although her parents were religious, the young MP had a disposition to keep company unrestrained by the cross of Christ. She lived for many years in disobedience to his holy will, repeatedly hardening her...

MD 's family background is 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 joined the Society of Friends

Born an English middle-class Quaker , she emigrated, probably as an adolescent, and lived her mature life as an American.

At six or seven, BB wrote, she became fearful about her future state, and was afraid of dying because of the prospect of Hell. The smallpox renewed these religious terrors. She had thrown them...

RS was white and English. She wrote that she came of a dynasty of doctors on both sides, with a scattering of farmers and merchants—the latter mostly Quakers . If it had not been...

MD attended the yearly meeting of the Society of Friends in Edinburgh with about thirty young women of her circle, apparently out of a joking spirit of curiosity.

Either KBG had become a member of the Society of Friends in time to send her youngest child to a Quaker school, or else the example of the school persuaded her to convert.

More commented, I perceive and bless God for it, that my Lady Conway was my Lady Conway to her Last Breath. As a Quaker she wrote a codicil to her will, revoking her order...

EA died on her Quaker missionary journey around Ireland, at a Friend's house in County Carlow.