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George Fox
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Standard Name: Fox, George,, 1624 - 1691
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Anne Audland | |
Friends, Associates | Anne Audland | |
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 |
Textual Production | Margaret Fell | MF
published jointly with George Fox
a leaflet of which her part was entitled A Paper Concerning Such as are made Ministers by the Will of Man. Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan. 284n8 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Textual Production | Margaret Fell | The first, posthumous publication of George Fox
's Journal included a Testimony concerning him by MF
: not only a biographical but also an autobiographical sketch. George Fox had died on 13 January 1691. Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan. 239n2 |
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... |
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. 240n2 |
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 |
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 |
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.