George Fox

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Standard Name: Fox, George,, 1624 - 1691

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Anne Whitehead
She worked closely with George Fox , taking over various administrative duties from him when he was in prison.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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...
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 . ....
Textual Features George Bernard Shaw
In it, Charles II , Nell Gwyn , Isaac Newton , and George Fox , among others, debate religious, scientific, and artistic issues.
Textual Production Dorothy Richardson
DR 's second book about the Quakers was published: an anthology derived from the writings of the movement's early leader, Gleanings from the Work of George Fox.
Fromm, Gloria G. Dorothy Richardson: A Biography. University of Illinois Press.
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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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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...
Textual Features Edna Lyall
The story revolves around Jacobite plots and persecution of Quakers in the period when Queen Mary II was Regent for her husband, William , during his absences abroad. It introduces actual characters like the former...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Ann Kelty
She had already issued, in 1840, Early Days in the Society of Friends: exemplifying the obedience of faith, in some of its first members, a work focussing on George Fox . By primitive in...
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Ann Kelty
Her narratives of these emotional involvements lead her into analysis of the different effects of love on the two sexes. This analysis is founded on two women writers (identifiable although she does not name them)...
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. The Journal. Editor Smith, Nigel, Penguin.
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Travel Elizabeth Hooton
EH left on her third and final missionary visit across the Atlantic, to Barbados and Jamaica with George Fox and others.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. University of California Press.
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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...
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Hooton
Her associates among the Society of Friends included the eminent, like George Fox , and the obscure, like Joan Brooksop .
Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. University of California Press.
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Joan Vokins , who was thirty years younger, sent Hooton her dear love...
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Hooton
EH 's thinking helped shape that of George Fox and thus of the Quaker movement as a whole. Emily Manners published a booklet about her for the Friends Historical Society in 1914.
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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.