Ashbridge, Elizabeth, and Arthur Charles Curtis. Quaker Grey. Astolat Press, 1904.
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death | Elizabeth Ashbridge | |
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 | Dorothy White | DW
died of a fever in London, according to early records, not long after her last published appeal to Quakers
not to forget their heroic and radical past. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. 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. |
Education | Mary Sewell | |
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/. |
Education | Elizabeth Jolley | When she was eleven, Elizabeth Knight (later EJ
) began to attend Sibford School
at Sibford Ferris in ruralOxfordshire, run by the Friends
(Quakers) but open to children of other faiths as well. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. 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. |
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, 1989. 118 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Joan Vokins | When JV
began to think about converting to Quakerism, her immediate family opposed it. In the end, however, they all followed her into the Society of Friends
. She later wrote that her relationship with... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Leadbeater | Her half-brother, another Abraham
, who took over the school when their father retired, was a man of deep thought, immense conscientiousness, and oppositional temperament. His pacifist convictions caused him to strike a number of... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Whitehead | Anne Downer (later AW
) made her first, brief marriage, when already a Quaker
and in her late thirties, to Benjamin Greenwell
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Leadbeater | Mary Shackleton first met her future husband when he came as a boy to Ballitore School
in 1777, brought there by his Anglican clergyman guardian and a friend who was a Roman Catholic priest. This... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Whitehead | Anne Greenwell
made her second marriage, to George Whitehead
, a grocer, legal expert, and veteran of prison, about twelve years her junior, who was known for his defences of Friends
both in court and... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Mollineux | She had first met him in prison the year before; he shared her Quaker
beliefs and activism. After her death he testified that he had decided in prison that he wanted to marry her, but... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Stirredge | William Tayler, Elizabeth's father, was deeply religious. Elizabeth later cherished the memory of his piety, and regarded his words, There is a day coming wherein truth will gloriously break forth, as a prophecy of the... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Daryush | Her mother, born (Mary) Monica Waterhouse
, was the daughter of well-known architect Alfred Waterhouse
and a cousin of painter and critic Roger Fry
. Her family had converted from Quakerism
to the Church of England |
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