Society of Friends

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death Elizabeth Ashbridge
EA died on her Quaker missionary journey around Ireland, at a Friend's house in County Carlow.
Ashbridge, Elizabeth, and Arthur Charles Curtis. Quaker Grey. Astolat Press, 1904.
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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 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
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/.
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.
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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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