Mary Penington

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Standard Name: Penington, Mary
Birth Name: Mary Proude
Married Name: Mary Springett
Married Name: Mary Penington
Written expression in connection with her religious life was vital to MP from her childhood. She wrote prayers and letters, and began amassing by stages a series of autobiographical writings in the Quaker tradition. She is skilled at rendering both the drama of human relationships and the intensities of spiritual quest (sometimes through the religious symbolism of dreams).

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Emma Marshall
The Quaker writer Mary Penington was, EM claimed in Memories of Troublous Times, 1880, one of her ancestors.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Marshall, Beatrice. Emma Marshall. Seeley, 1900.
157
Family and Intimate relationships Christopher St John
Emma Marshall's first historical romance, Memories of Troublous Times, 1880, maintained that among their ancestors was Quaker writer Mary Penington .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Emma Marshall
Marshall, Beatrice. Emma Marshall. Seeley, 1900.
157
Residence Dorothy Wellesley
She said the house's little faĉade was perfect, and the rocks were real, large, and primeval. It had once belonged to Guglielma Penn , wife of the famous Quaker William Penn and daughter (though Wellesley...
Textual Features Emma Marshall
Memories of Troublous Times combines two voices: reminiscences by the fictional royalist Dame Alicia Chamberlayne and the autobiographical writings of actual Quaker Mary Penington (published in 1821), whom EM here claims as an ancestor. She...
Textual Production Anne Conway
Comparatively little of AC 's philosophical correspondence has survived (that is, far more letters to her than from her are extant). This correspondence cover[ed] such topics as Quakerism , Familism, Behmen ism, Spinoza ...
Wealth and Poverty John Bunyan
At Christmas 1685 JB made a legal deed of gift transferring everything he owned to his wife, Elizabeth.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
This was intended as protection against the kind of punitive legal confiscation suffered some years earlier by...

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Texts

Penington, Mary. Experiences in the Life of Mary Penington. Editor Penney, Norman, Friends Historical Society, 1992.
Penington, Mary, and John Penington. “My Mother’s Account”. John Penington’s Complaint against William Rogers, Benjamin Clark, 1681, pp. 10-13.
Skidmore, Gil, and Mary Penington. “Preface”. Experiences in the Life of Mary Penington, edited by Norman Penney and Norman Penney, Friends Historical Society, 1992, p. vii - xvii.
Penington, Mary. Some Account of Circumstances in the Life of Mary Pennington. Harvey and Darton, 1821.
Penington, Mary, and Isaac Penington. “Testimony Concerning Her Dear Husband”. The Works of the Long-Mournful and Sorely-Distressed Isaac Penington, Benjamin Clark, 1681.
Penington, Mary. The Mystery of the Deity in the Humanity. Giles Calvert, 1649.