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, 1990.
George Fox
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Standard Name: Fox, George,, 1624 - 1691
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Anne Audland | |
| Cultural formation | Mary Penington | She had decided after much seeking that she would rather be without a religion, till the Lord taught me one. She was at first strongly prejudiced against the Quakers, feeling that the plain language, using... |
| Cultural formation | Elizabeth Hooton | The first, epoch-making meeting took place between EH
, who was approaching fifty, and the much younger George Fox
. Fox, George, 1624 - 1691. The Journal. Editor Smith, Nigel, Penguin, 1998. 12 |
| Cultural formation | Elizabeth Hooton | 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... |
| Cultural formation | Margaret Fell | |
| Cultural formation | Mary Fisher | It is not known whether she belonged to the Church of England or some other sect before she joined the Society of Friends
(in earlier 1652, along with her employers). Peters, Kate. Print Culture and the Early Quakers. Cambridge University Press, 2005. 37 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Margaret Fell | MF
's son, unlike her daughters, was a constant source of unhappiness to her: first by disapproving her second marriage on the grounds that George Fox
was her social inferior, and then by engaging in... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Katharine Bruce Glasier | KBG
was devastated by her husband's death, but later she began to experience visions of his continuing presence (as she did of her son's presence after he too died). Kelly, Gary, and Edd Applegate, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 190. Gale Research, 1998. 190:125 Glasier, Katharine Bruce. The Glen Book. London. 79 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | L. S. Bevington | Alexander Bevington
, LSB
's father, was also born on the edge of Colchester, at Lexden in Essex. His family had ties to George Fox
(a founding member of the Society of Friends |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Margaret Fell | He was ten years younger than she was; the marriage improved his social standing. The marriage was to some extent disputed within the Quaker movement, though they may have hoped it would quell any possible... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Margaret Fell | She was not in London when George Fox
, her second husband, died there on 13 January 1691. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements. Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan, 1994. 180 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Margaret Fell | After eleven years of widowhood, MF
was married at Bristol to George Fox
, with whom she had already been a fellow-worker for years. Phyllis Mack
apparently gives the date in Old Style, as 18 October. Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. University of California Press, 1992. 303 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Fox, George, 1624 - 1691 et al. The Journal of George Fox. Editor Nickalls, John L., Cambridge University Press, 1952. 555n2 |
| Friends, Associates | Rebecca Travers | She must have been a close personal friend of her co-religionist Joan Whitrow
and her family, for when Joan's daughter Susannah
was dying in 1677 she asked for Rebecca, that dear Friend . .... |
| Friends, Associates | Margaret Fell | A number of early Quakers became lifelong friends and fellow-workers with MF
. She met James Naylor or Nayler
and Richard Farnsworth
not long after she met George Fox
. Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan, 1994. 240n2 |
Timeline
1667: The Quakers established Monthly Meetings...
Building item
1667
The Quakers
established Monthly Meetings to direct the business and lives of their members.
Lloyd, Arnold. Quaker Social History 1669-1738. Longman’s, Green, 1950.
110
Lloyd, Arnold. Quaker Social History 1669-1738. Longman’s, Green, 1950.
109-11
1694-1706: Quaker printer Tace Sowle produced three...
Writing climate item
1694-1706
Quaker
printer Tace Sowle
produced three volumes of the works of George Fox
(Quaker pioneer, husband of Margaret Fell
): his Journal, Epistles, and Gospel-Truth Demonstrated.
Bracken, James K., and Joel Silver, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 170. Gale Research, 1996.
254-5
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
Texts
Fell, Margaret, and George, 1624 - 1691 Fox. A Paper Concerning Such as are made Ministers by the Will of Man. Printed for M. W., 1659.
Fortescue, William et al. A Short Relation. 1671.
Fox, George, 1624 - 1691. The Journal. Editor Smith, Nigel, Penguin, 1998.
Fox, George, 1624 - 1691 et al. The Journal of George Fox. Editor Nickalls, John L., Cambridge University Press, 1952.