Schlueter, Paul, and June Schlueter, editors. An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers. Garland.
Society of Friends
Connections
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Cultural formation | Sarah Stickney Ellis | |
Cultural formation | Anna Sewell | After seriously injuring her ankle at the age of fourteen, AS
was dependent on horses for mobility for the rest of her life. Her gratitude towards these animals, coupled with the Quaker
and Rousseauvian
values... |
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 | 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 | 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 | Hannah Mary Rathbone | |
Cultural formation | Margaret Fell | |
Cultural formation | Mary Mollineux | |
Cultural formation | Mary Sewell | Both of MS
's parents were members of the Society of Friends
, as were her husband's family. She remained a Friend, or Quaker, until 1835, when she joined the Church of England
after flirting... |
Cultural formation | Winifred Peck | |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Stirredge | A year later she was still seeking a mentor; but in due course she joined the Society of Friends
. After she was well established in her faith, she retained the habit of retiring alone... |
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 | 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... |
Timeline
1670: Members of a London jury headed by Edward...
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1670
Members of a London jury headed by Edward Bushel
(called by a recent commentator disinterested . . . property-owners) professed themselves willing to go to jail rather than to convict against their consciences.
18 July 1671: The Quaker women's meeting, begun by Ann...
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18 July 1671
The Quaker
women's meeting, begun by Ann Stevens
and Damaris Sanders
, was held at Priestwood near Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire: it has been called the first documented women's meeting.
October 1671: The Swarthmoor Women's Monthly Meeting was...
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October 1671
The Swarthmoor Women's Monthly Meeting was instituted (perhaps the first women's meeting of Quakers
outside London to become permanent, though the Great Missenden meeting had first met by July).
November 1671: The Quaker Thomas Milne of Aberdeen, who...
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November 1671
The QuakerThomas Milne
of Aberdeen, who had buried his dead child in a kail-yard in preference to the Presbyterian grave-yard, was punished by a sentence of exile, closing his shop, and removing the body.
Late March 1673: The Test Act barred from office (even local...
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Late March 1673
The Test Act barred from office (even local office) anyone who declined to take the sacrament of the Church of England
and an oath against the Catholic
doctrine of Transubstantiation.
15 July 1673: The Publishing Committee of the Society of...
Women writers item
15 July 1673
The Publishing Committee
of the Society of Friends
made the decision to archive two copies of every book published by a Quaker.
From September 1673: The Quakers set up a weekly Morning Meeting,...
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From September 1673
The Quakers
set up a weekly Morning Meeting, in London changed with vetting texts submitted for publication.
1677: By this year the Society of Friends included...
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1677
By this year the Society of Friends
included prosperous merchants and traders in all the major centres in England and Ireland. At least fourteen substantial London merchants were Quakers, which provided a new motive...
1678: Quaker theologian Robert Barclay's Apology...
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1678
Quaker
theologian Robert Barclay
's Apology for the True Christian Divinity was first published in English, by the Sowle Press
.
January 1678: An unidentified woman clerk thought it worth...
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January 1678
An unidentified woman clerk thought it worth while to write the history of the beginnings of the separate meeting of women Quakers
at Priestwood near Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire.
1679: The Licensing Act of 1662 lapsed; penalties...
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1679
The Licensing Act of 1662 lapsed; penalties being no longer in force, Quaker
printers began putting their names on the title-pages issuing from their shops.
December 1681: The Privy Council moved against Quakers and...
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December 1681
The Privy Council
moved against Quakers
and Dissenters by enforcing past orders against them, like the Clarendon Code, which dated 1661 and the few years thereafter.
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