George Fox

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Standard Name: Fox, George,, 1624 - 1691

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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
Cultural formation Margaret Fell
MF and her family were converted to Quakerism by George Fox .
Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan.
x
Textual Production Margaret Fell
This was one half of a three-page pamphlet of which Fox wrote the other half, entitled The Difference between the Worlds Relation which Stands in Strife . . . and the Saints relation which stands...
politics Margaret Fell
MF wrote to ask her first husband to arrange the publication of tracts by George Fox and others.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
politics Margaret Fell
A Colonel Richard Kirkby delivered a warning through George Fox to MF that she must cease holding great meetings at her house for they met contrary to the Act.
Fox, George et al. The Journal of George Fox. Editor Nickalls, John L., Cambridge University Press.
456
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.
303
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Fox, George et al. The Journal of George Fox. Editor Nickalls, John L., Cambridge University Press.
555n2
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

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.