George Fox

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Standard Name: Fox, George,, 1624 - 1691

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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
She also enjoyed a...
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
George Fox continued to frequent Swarthmoor, and at the time of the Restoration (May 1660) was...
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
For refusing...
Occupation Margaret Fell
MF was an important Quaker preacher; yet her own preaching was probably eclipsed in importance by her publications and by her facilitation of the publishing of other Quakers. George Fox 's journal includes a defence...
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
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...
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
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
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

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