Society of Friends

According to the ODNB Anne Downer (later AW , early Quaker convert) was born at Charlbury in Oxfordshire, one of three sisters, at a less than certain date.

Elizabeth Carrier, who later as EH became one of the earliest Quaker preachers, was born.

It traces the life of Sabina Rock, an orphan in a Quaker family, through her teenage years. This prodigy, who runs no risk of ever being mistaken for an ordinary mortal, is...

In Dimple Hill, the middle-aged Miriam goes on a holiday in Sussex, and remains there living on the farm named in the title as a paying guest of a family of Quakers ...

A foreword by Jalna Hanmer explains that the play addresses the early-seventeenth-century shift towards male doctors' control of women's reproduction through new technology (the introduction of forceps) and through religion (the execution of witches)...

The protagonist and letter-writer, Samuel Pumphrey, is a a Quaker clerk, puritan, provincial and utterly inartistic, as well as initially self-righteous. Before the story begins he was saving money to marry his beloved...

This book differs from Foster's first two novels, in that it is shorter (two volumes instead of three or four), not historical but rather a sentimental novel about courtship, and originally published by Minerva as...

AC became a Quaker . This at first compromised her friendship with More , but he did modify his attitude to the Society of Friends as a result of her action.

HK converted from Methodism to Quakerism , to which she had been leaning for some time; she now applied to join the monthly meeting at Balby near Doncaster.

She experienced a spiritual awakening after hearing a sermon by Hugh Peter when she was about nineteen, then in 1650 joined the Baptist congregation of John Simpson . Later she moved to the sect of...

She was born into the Irish cottager or labouring class and into the Society of Friends . The family had a long tradition of Quaker belief and activism. She later observed that her father's cottage...

EH became a Quaker , and began to dress in plain Quaker style.

Her family were Quakers , said to be in humble life, which suggests that the school where the father taught was an unpretentious one for children of the local poor.

Her mother taught her to love the language of the Anglican prayer book and made her go to church (of the very HighAnglican variety). JG gave up her church-going when she was free to do...

Trained at home in prayers learned by heart, with some scope for improvising, and given a religious grounding in Anglican ism at school,ES realised that she was not an irreligious person only...