Society of Friends

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death Elizabeth Hooton
Her death was reported to the Society of Friends in England by James Lancaster , who provided a loving presence for her at the end.
Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. University of California Press.
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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, Clarendon Press.
451
As a Quaker she wrote a codicil to her will, revoking her order...
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.
Education Mary Sewell
At the age of fifteen she ceased regular study, and began reading on her own. She spent much of the time at Friends ' meetings going over passages from Byron , Southey , Moore ...
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/.
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.
118
Family and Intimate relationships Constance Smedley
They had known each other as students at Birmingham Art School, and met again in 1907 when he designed the decor for a special dinner which CS gave at the Lyceum Club .
Smedley, Constance, and Maxwell Armfield. Crusaders. Chatto & Windus.
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Family and Intimate relationships Mary Howitt
MH 's mother, born Ann Wood , was an abolitionist who joined the Society of Friends in 1790 at the age of twenty-six. Her family were said to have originated as French Huguenots named Dubois...
Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth Jenkins
EJ 's other brother, David Caldicott Heald Jenkins , was eight months old at the time of the British census in 1911. He became a successful solicitor first in Hitchin and then in London. During...
Family and Intimate relationships Judith Cowper Madan
Scandal engulfed him in spring 1699, when he was accused of raping and perhaps murdering a young Quaker woman named Sarah Stout . He claimed that the accusation was cynically brought by his political enemies...
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Leadbeater
Mary Shackleton married William Leadbeater , who had become a farmer when his joining the Quakers closed to him the career he had intended to pursue.
Leadbeater, Mary, and Mary Cunningham. The Annals of Ballitore, 1766-1824. Editor McKenna, John, Stephen Scroop.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Family and Intimate relationships Anna Letitia Waring
ALW 's uncle Samuel Miller Waring had left the Society of Friends to join the Anglican Church, and had published Sacred Melodies (1826), a collection of hymns. Through her uncle's example she was strengthened in...
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Scott
John Taylor had been a classical tutor in the Daventry Academy and a minister in the English Presbyterian church. By the time of his marriage his search for the truth had led him to join...
Family and Intimate relationships Joan Whitrow
Joan's daughter, Susannah , was born about 1662, and in youth attended the local Anglican church, which later, after becoming a Quaker , she came to regard as that abominable House, where they commit their...

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