Kelly, Gary, and Edd Applegate, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 190. Gale Research.
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George Fox
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Standard Name: Fox, George,, 1624 - 1691
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Katharine Bruce Glasier | KBG
was devastated by her husband's death, but later she began to experience visions of his continuing presence (as she did of her son's presence after he too died). Glasier, Katharine Bruce. The Glen Book. London. 79 |
| Cultural formation | Mary Fisher | It is not known whether she belonged to the Church of England or some other sect before she joined the Society of Friends
(in earlier 1652, along with her employers). Peters, Kate. Print Culture and the Early Quakers. Cambridge University Press. 37 |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Fisher | MF
was personally acquainted with many of the pioneers among the Quakers. It was contact with George Fox
that first converted her. She shared her jail term at York with Thomas Aldam
and Elizabeth Hooton |
| 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 |
| Occupation | Margaret Fell | |
| 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. Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan. 180 |
| Textual Production | Margaret Fell | MF
(no doubt already a letter-writer, as were most women of her class) first wrote to George Fox
in 1652, the year of her conversion. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. under George Fox |
| Cultural formation | Margaret Fell | |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
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