Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
George Fox
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Standard Name: Fox, George,, 1624 - 1691
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Anne Whitehead | She worked closely with George Fox
, taking over various administrative duties from him when he was in prison. |
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 | |
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. Fox... |
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)... |
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. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
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. 12 |
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. 130n9 |
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. 127-8 |
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.