George Fox

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Standard Name: Fox, George,, 1624 - 1691

Connections

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Cultural formation Anne Audland
AA and her first husband, John Audland , were converted to Quakerism by George Fox .
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.
Friends, Associates Anne Audland
The peripatetic George Fox again visited the Audlands' house: Anne and her husband wanted him to stay for a meeting next day, but he refused—rightly, as it turned out.
Fox, George. The Journal. Editor Smith, Nigel, Penguin.
332
Occupation Anne Audland
On their conversion, AA and her husband both became preachers. George Fox mentions John's ministry and his preaching that same year.
Fox, George. The Journal. Editor Smith, Nigel, Penguin.
86, 99
Friends, Associates Anne Audland
George Fox visited the Audlands' house many times: in 1652, 1656, and 1657, when he held a meeting there.
Fox, George. The Journal. Editor Smith, Nigel, Penguin.
87, 93, 205, 237
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
politics Hester Biddle
George Fox later reported meeting HB in the Strand in London in about 1657, at a time when Cromwell was persecuting Quakers . She told him of her plan to seek out the future Charles II
Occupation Katharine Evans
Even their opponents acknowledged the women's charismatic spiritual power. After their relations with the consul deteriorated, Katherine magisterially rebuked him as a condemned person, and stands guilty before God. She urged him to repent, but...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text U. A. Fanthorpe
The title sequence is important in the volume.
Bailey, Rosemarie. “Temperamental Outsider”. The Ship, Vol.
66
, pp. 67-8.
68
Other topics include the poet's mother, the Quaker pacifist George Fox , and the theme of the woman writer's particular struggles, for which UAF employs Virginia Woolf
politics Margaret Fell
In organising the Fund she was interested in promoting social cohesion among Quakers as well as relieving hardship.
Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan.
87
George Fox continued to frequent Swarthmoor, and at the time of the Restoration (May 1660) was...
politics Margaret Fell
This approach to the newly-restored monarch was a vital tactical move for the Quakers, who had been persecuted in the last years of the Interregnum. George Fox was still in prison; MF went to London...
politics Margaret Fell
When magistrates charged her with keeping a meeting at her house, she replied: while it pleased the Lord to let me have a House, I would endeavour to worship him in it.
Fell, Margaret. A Brief Collection of Remarkable Passages. J. Sowle.
7
For refusing...
Occupation Margaret Fell
MF was an important Quaker preacher; yet her own preaching was probably eclipsed in importance by her publications and by her facilitation of the publishing of other Quakers. George Fox 's journal includes a defence...
Travel Margaret Fell
In summer 1663 MF made a thousand-mile journey around the west (from Bristol through Somerset, Devon, and Dorset, then north and through Yorkshire, Northumberland, and Westmorland); five years later...
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.
William Penn was chosen to break news to her.
Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan.
180

Timeline

1667: The Quakers established Monthly Meetings...

Building item

1667

The Quakers established Monthly Meetings to direct the business and lives of their members.

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.

Texts

Fell, Margaret, and George 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. The Journal. Editor Smith, Nigel, Penguin, 1998.
Fox, George et al. The Journal of George Fox. Editor Nickalls, John L., Cambridge University Press, 1952.