However, a letter to her from Anna Seward of July 1792 sounds sympathetic, even pitying, about John Taylor's becoming a strict disciple of [Robert] Barclay
.
Seward, Anna. Letters of Anna Seward. Editor Constable, Archibald, Vol.
6 vols.
, A. Constable, 1811, 6 vols.
3: 149
As Seward tells it, Taylor, in coming...
Education
Mary Howitt
Mary learned by heart a central Quaker text, the seventeenth-century Barclay
's Catechism and Confession of Faith, even before going to school.
Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London, 1992.
34
Family and Intimate relationships
Priscilla Wakefield
PW
's mother, born Catherine Barclay, was a grand-daughter of Robert Barclay
the Quaker writer.
SH
supplies her own commentary and link passages. Among the rather few women quoted are Elizabeth Ashbridge
, Christian Barclay
(wife of Robert Barclay
), and Anne Galloway
(on education). Topics covered include Getting and...
Literary responses
Elizabeth Bathurst
In a note in Quaker Studies, Nakano
has compared and distinguished between EB
's soteriology (or doctrine of salvation) and that of Robert Barclay
. He also pointed out that printer's errors in her...
Reception
May Drummond
From the first, however, MD
's preaching was polarizing, attracting not only praise but also criticism more hostile than Cookworthy's. She was blamed for her social manner, for being visibly of a higher rank than...
Travel
Margaret Fell
In summer 1677 MF
travelled abroad: to Holland with George Fox, Robert Barclay
, William Penn
, her daughter Isabel Yeamans
, and others. After that she made four more visits to London: in...
Timeline
1678: Quaker theologian Robert Barclay's Apology...
Writing climate item
1678
Quaker
theologian Robert Barclay
's Apology for the True Christian Divinity was first published in English, by the Sowle Press
.
Bracken, James K., and Joel Silver, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 170. Gale Research, 1996.