Isaac Penington

Standard Name: Penington, Isaac

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation Mary Ann Kelty
Retrospectively she remembered that at this time her thoughts were most harrassing, most degrading; yet . . . a holy, yet evanescent sentiment was also present.
Kelty, Mary Ann. Reminiscences of Thought and Feeling. W. Pickering, 1852.
177
Under Simeon's influence she tried to convert Professor...
Cultural formation Mary Penington
MP and her second husband made the momentous conversion to Quakerism , though the mediation of two Friends named Thomas Curtis and William Simpson .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Penington
For eight years after the Restoration, MP 's husband Isaac was repeatedly imprisoned for his faith, in different places and for varying periods of time. Even his release in 1668 was not final.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Penington
Mary Springett , as a young widow, married Isaac Penington (who was already a writer on politics and religion) at St Margaret's, Westminster.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Penington
MP and her imprisoned husband learned that their second son, Isaac, had drowned at sea on his way back from Barbados.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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Penington, Mary. Some Account of Circumstances in the Life of Mary Pennington. Harvey and Darton, 1821.
iii-iv
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Penington
MP 's husband Isaac died after a week's illness at her birthplace, Goodnestone Court in Kent.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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Friends, Associates Anne Conway
AC corresponded with and was visited by many leading members of the Society of Friends , among them Keith , Robert Barclay , Anne and George Whitehead , Isaac Penington , William Penn , and...
Material Conditions of Writing Mary Penington
Some months after Isaac Penington 's death, while she was at Woodside sitting up past midnight with my sick child,MP wrote a Testimony Concerning Her Dear Husband.
Penington, Mary, and Isaac Penington. “Testimony Concerning Her Dear Husband”. The Works of the Long-Mournful and Sorely-Distressed Isaac Penington, Benjamin Clark, 1681.
xxviii
Residence Mary Penington
MP and her second husband , now publicly known to be Quakers, settled at The Grange near Chalfont St Peter in Buckinghamshire.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Features Mary Penington
This account runs as far as the first Quaker meeting which MP and her second husband held at Chalfont, after their conversion.
Textual Production Mary Penington
MP contributed some pages of self-defence to a polemic by her eldest son: John Penington 's Complaint against William Rogers relating to the Memory of his Worthy Father Isaac Penington.
Penington, Mary, and John Penington. “My Mother’s Account”. John Penington’s Complaint against William Rogers, Benjamin Clark, 1681, pp. 10-13.
Textual Production Anne Conway
Comparatively little of AC 's philosophical correspondence has survived (that is, far more letters to her than from her are extant). This correspondence cover[ed] such topics as Quakerism , Familism, Behmen ism, Spinoza ...
Travel Mary Penington
MP travelled through Kent, past Gravesend to The Downs, with her husband , her daughter Gulielma or Gully, and Margaret Fox (formerly Fell) , to see George Fox off on a preaching voyage.
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Penington, Mary, and Isaac Penington. “Testimony Concerning Her Dear Husband”. The Works of the Long-Mournful and Sorely-Distressed Isaac Penington, Benjamin Clark, 1681.