Society of Friends

The Ford family did not conform to the stricter rules of the Quaker denomination, and Isabella and her siblings were allowed to dance, paint, play instruments, and sing. The children also developed strong senses of...

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...

It sounds as if EB 's parents were English Quakers of the rising London middle class. In her first publication she wrote that God called her by his grace even in my tender Years.

In 1759 MD sought official permission from the Society of Friends to travel to America and preach there. Permission was denied by William Miller of Edinburgh, and this seems to have precipitated a movement by...

MS grew up in a prosperous, middle-class household, in which religion was the centre of everyday life and activity. Most sources agree that her family were Protestant Dissenters.

Elizabeth was born to a Baptist family, and was very active within the movement. She was already an established preacher well before she became perhaps the first person to join George Fox in the embryonic...

BB was converted to Quakerism by two of the early adherents of the sect, John Audland and John Camm .

ER came from a long-established English family settled in Liverpool, with a tradition of industrialism, philanthropy, high culture, Liberalism, and Dissent (either Quaker or Unitarian ).

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, but he later saw this...

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...

From the views expressed in her novels, EBL appears to have been an Anglican of Evangelical outlook and Quaker sympathies.

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.

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...

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...

MAH 's forebears were Quakers on the maternal side, and on both sides soberly respectable and artistic, but her Irish Home-Ruler grandfather, who had joined Friends after his marriage, had been expelled by the Friends...