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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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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... |
Residence | Joan Vokins | Charney Manor, at Charney Bassett, the village where JV
grew up, is now (2016) a conference centre owned by the Society of Friends
, which especially welcomes delegates involved in conflict resolution and international... |
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... |
Occupation | Joan Vokins | Not long after her conversion JV
became a Quaker minister and missionary. She and her sister Jane Sansom
became local leaders of the movement, strong supporters of the women's meetings which in the later 1670s... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Joan Vokins | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Joan Vokins | This work is prefaced by testimonies including one by Theophila Townsend
. Her account of her ministry tells of physical suffering andurance: as JV
wrote not long before she died, how many hundred Miles have... |
Author summary | Joan Vokins | |
Cultural formation | Joan Vokins | Born in the yeoman class, she was brought up an Anglican
. In youth and for years after her marriage she felt spiritually lost, as a ship without an anchor among the merciless waves. Graham, Elspeth et al., editors. Her Own Life. Routledge. 216 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rose Tremain | This was Tremain's longest novel so far, and her first use in full-length fiction of the seventeenth century, which had featured in several of her stories. Her protagonist-narrator, Robert Merivel, is a man of expensive... |
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... |
Occupation | Rebecca Travers | RT
's visible ministry in London belongs to the years 1659-61. Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan. 141 |
Textual Production | Rebecca Travers | She spelled her name Rebecka on the former of these, but in its more conventional form on the other. The former title continues: Of That Eternal Breath begotten and brought forth not of flesh &... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rebecca Travers | The extremely long descriptive title promises that the Quaker
faith is the same believed by the holy men and women that gave forth the Scriptures. English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rebecca Travers | This tract uses verse as well as prose. A threat is embodied in its title (which is again long, though not so long as that of her previous work): things to come are here declared... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Rebecca Travers | This was designed to refute controversial texts published against Quaker
doctrine by Robert Cobbet
(A Word to the Upright, 1668) and Elizabeth Atkinson
(Breif [sic] and Plain Discovery of the Labourers in... |
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