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Cultural formation John Bunyan
JB 's spiritual struggle dated back to his unregenerate teens. Under the influence of his first wife he began attending the establishedchurch and developed exaggerated reverence for its priests,
Bunyan, John. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners. George Larkin.
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but he later saw this...
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 Catherine Phillips
She was a middle-class Englishwoman, a Quaker both by birth and conversion.
Cultural formation Mary Ann Kelty
At last she freed herself enough from her religious scruples to decide that music and writing were both permissible. It was about now that she moved to Ipswich with a view to learning more about...
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...
Cultural formation Hannah Griffitts
She was born into the upper middling ranks of white settler society. Like many in Pennsylvania, she was a Quaker .
Cultural formation Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck
MAS was an earnest religious seeker. Brought up in the Society of Friends, she had years of doubt, of misery, of darkness, and became successively a Quaker , a Methodist , and finally a Moravian
Cultural formation A. S. Byatt
ASB 's family background is English, middle-class, and Anglican . Initially, her mother was an atheist and her father took the children to an Anglican church, but both parents held Quaker values, and eventually they...
Cultural formation Mary Peisley
She was born into the Irish cottager or labouring class and into the Society of Friends . The family had a long tradition of Quaker belief and activism. She later observed that her father's cottage...
Cultural formation E. A. Dillwyn
EAD came from an upper-middle-class, Liberal, Welsh, presumably white family. Her paternal grandfather had been a Quaker , but he had left the Society of Friends to marry a non-Quaker woman. Their children were born...
Cultural formation Mary Peisley
Although her parents were religious, the young MP had a disposition to keep company unrestrained by the cross of Christ. She lived for many years in disobedience to his holy will,
Peisley, Mary, and Samuel Neale. Some Account of the Life and Religious Exercises of Mary Neale, formerly Mary Peisley. John Gough.
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repeatedly hardening her...
Cultural formation Catherine Hutton
CH grew up in a Dissenting family which suffered for its beliefs. She had a number of Quaker friends, to whom she unembarrassedly used thou and thee. She wrote that she almost became a...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Ashbridge
She left the Dublin cousin because she hated his Quaker religion. Naturally vivacious, this teenaged widow found her cousin's gloomy sense of sorrow and conviction,
Ashbridge, Elizabeth, and Arthur Charles Curtis. Quaker Grey. Astolat Press.
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and his disapproval of singing and dancing more than...
Cultural formation May Kendall
Later in life she involved herself with the Quakers or Society of Friends . Diana Maltz notes that although she was not a Quaker herself, she was closely allied with their institutional activities and contributed...
Cultural formation Anna Letitia Waring
ALW converted from the Society of Friends to Anglicanism (with her parents' consent); she was baptised into the Church of England at St Martin's Church, Winnall, near Winchester in Hampshire.
Talbot, Mary S. In Remembrance of Anna Letitia Waring. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
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Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research.
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Timeline

June 1787: A report from the Yearly Meeting of Quakers...

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June 1787

A report from the Yearly Meeting of Quakers in this and the previous month noted a growing attention in many not of our religious society to the subject of Negro slavery.

1788: The Quaker Thomas Clarkson travelled round...

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1788

The QuakerThomas Clarkson travelled round British ports collecting evidence (in the face of obstacles and opposition) about the operations of the slave trade.

11 May 1792: Edmund Burke in his Speech on the Petition...

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11 May 1792

Edmund Burke in his Speech on the Petition of the Unitarians argued that Unitarians, who denied the doctrine of the Trinity, could not claim toleration like Catholics , Presbyterian s, Quakers , and others.

14 June 1792: The title of radical novelist Robert Bage's...

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14 June 1792

The title of radical novelist Robert Bage 's anonymous Man As He Is, published this day, suggests the unpalatable truths revealed by reformers or satirists; it influenced later titles chosen by William Godwin and others.

1801: The Quaker Joseph Lancaster opened his non-sectarian...

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1801

The QuakerJoseph Lancaster opened his non-sectarian Free School in Borough Road in south-east London; he soon had a thousand pupils.

1808-9: Rudolph Ackermann published The Microcosm...

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1808-9

Rudolph Ackermann published The Microcosm of London in three volumes, a remarkable collection of engraved views of life in the capital.

1847: The Friends First Day School Association...

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1847

The Friends First Day School Association was founded; this Quaker organization advocated literacy training for working-class adults.

8 August 1851: The system of tithes (one-tenth of the produce...

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8 August 1851

The system of tithes (one-tenth of the produce of agricultural land paid yearly for the support of the Church of England ) was abolished at the instigation of William Blamire the younger (1790-1862).

1874: The Society for the Suppression of the Opium...

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1874

By September 1887: William Walker published at Aberdeen The...

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By September 1887

William Walker published at AberdeenThe Bards of Bon-Accord, 1375-1860, a history of poetry in Aberdeenshire, which had already appeared serially in the Herald and Weekly Free Press.
The volume is dated from...

July 1921: News reached the rest of the world that the...

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July 1921

News reached the rest of the world that the harvest had failed for the fourth year in succession in Russia.

1922: William Penn, the well-known London Quaker...

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1922

William Penn, the well-known London Quaker who emigrated to America and founded the state of Pennsylvania, was the subject of a play by Mary Lucy Pendered .

Saturday 19 June 1926: About a hundred thousand participants of...

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Saturday 19 June 1926

About a hundred thousand participants of the Peacemakers' Pilgrimage (all wearing blue armbands showing the white dove of peace and the word Pax) converged on Hyde Park in London.

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