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Cultural formation | Mary Ann Shadd Cary | Mary Ann Shadd came of mixed white and black (or, in her own word, colored) American heritage on both maternal and paternal sides. Her paternal great-grandfather came originally from Germany. The family was economically... |
Cultural formation | Carol Shields | |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Ashbridge | She had a final struggle to undertake before, while visiting her Quaker relatives at Philadelphia, she finally humbled her pride by joining the Society of Friends
, which she had for so long despised... |
Cultural formation | Priscilla Wakefield | She came from a distinguished English Quaker
family of the middle class. |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Ham | EH
lived to the age of about thirty without questioning her religion, or those parts of the Bible which she could understand. Meeting with earnest Evangelicals would leave her at a loss what to think... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth B. Lester | |
Cultural formation | Dorothy White | She was a presumably English Quaker
; nothing is known of her social background. By the end of her life she held millenarian beliefs. |
Cultural formation | Winifred Peck | |
Cultural formation | Anne Audland | AA
and her first husband, John Audland
, were converted to Quakerism
by George Fox
. 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. |
Cultural formation | Anne Docwra | Born into an English gentry family, AD
was an Anglican
during the Interregnum, when Anglicans were persecuted and reduced to holding their services in field conventicles. Docwra, Anne. The Second Part of an Apostate-Conscience Exposed. 21 |
Cultural formation | Rebecca Travers | She was originally a Baptist
and was converted to Quakerism
by James Nayler
. She remained loyal to Nayler, even after he was disgraced and condemned by George Fox
. RT
organised the first women's... |
Cultural formation | Jessie Fothergill | JF
's father, a former Quaker
, was cast out by the Society of Friends
when he married an Anglican
wife. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Scholar Helen Debenham
notes, citing correspondence with Ian Fell
, who is writing a... |
Cultural formation | L. S. Bevington | She was born into a white and wealthy English family. It had Quaker
roots on both sides, but there are questions about whether or not she was brought up in the Society of Friends. The... |
Cultural formation | Catherine Phillips | She was a middle-class Englishwoman, a Quaker
both by birth and conversion. |
Cultural formation | Priscilla Wakefield | A loyal, life-long member of the Society of Friends
, PW
was anything but narrow in her beliefs and practice. In middle life she wrote that without disparaging the value of [t]rue religion, she desired... |
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