Society of Friends

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation Bathsheba Bowers
BB became something of a recluse in Philadelphia. According to her niece Ann Bolton, she was prone to reading the Bible with the intention of finding fault with it,
Mulford, Carla et al., editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Gale Research, 1999.
and yet more shockingly sometimes...
Cultural formation Katharine Bruce Glasier
Either KBG had become a member of the Society of Friends in time to send her youngest child to a Quaker school, or else the example of the school persuaded her to convert.
Thompson, Laurence. The Enthusiasts. Victor Gollancz Limited, 1971.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Cultural formation Marie Stopes
MS seems also to have reacted against her mother's inculcation of the hellfire beliefs of the particularly harsh brand of Presbyterianism associated with the Wee Free or Free Church of Scotland .
Commire, Anne, and Deborah Klezmer, editors. Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Yorkin Publications, 1999–2002, 17 vols.
Maude, Aylmer. The Authorized Life of Marie C. Stopes. Williams and Norgate, 1924.
185
As an...
Cultural formation Virginia Woolf
VW was the daughter not only of an educated man,
Woolf, Virginia. Three Guineas. Hogarth Press, 1986.
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but of one of the most influential intellectuals in late Victorian England. Her family on both sides was part of the intellectual ascendancy....
Cultural formation Mary Peisley
MP regretted the passing of the days when the Friends had been, although persecuted, more steady, pure, and active in their faith. In her husband's words: She mourned for the obvious declension of our society...
Cultural formation Harriet Corp
HC was an Evangelical, and may have been a Quaker or a Methodist .
Cultural formation Elizabeth Stirredge
ES says the Lord began to work in her heart, preparing a conversion experience, when the QuakersJohn Audland and John Camm shamed her about her fine clothes.
Stirredge, Elizabeth. Strength in Weakness Manifest. J. Sowle, 1711.
15
Cultural formation Emilie Barrington
She came from an upper middle-class business family whose background included Quaker and Anglican elements. She staunchly upheld the class system, identifying herself with the upper classes. As an adult, she assumed an anti-suffrage stance...
Cultural formation Mary Sewell
Both of MS 's parents were members of the Society of Friends , as were her husband's family. She remained a Friend, or Quaker, until 1835, when she joined the Church of England after flirting...
Cultural formation Sophia Hume
SH , religiously awakened by a dangerous brush with smallpox, converted from Anglicanism and joined the Society of Friends .
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, 1990.
Cultural formation Margaret Fell
MF and her family were converted to Quakerism by George Fox .
Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan, 1994.
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Cultural formation Hannah Mary Rathbone
This HMR came from a north-country family of Quaker origins, whose involvement in industrial manufacturing had put them squarely in the upper middle class.
Cultural formation Mary Penington
MP came from the English middle class, and was born into the Anglican church. After an early disregard for religion, then a long period of spiritual struggle, she became a Quaker .
Cultural formation May Drummond
Born into an upwardly-mobile Scottish bourgeois family and brought up in the Church of Scotland , MD was about twenty-one when she left the church, gave up their Society and Ceremonies (without, she wrote indignantly...
Cultural formation Anne Whitehead
She was baptised an Anglican , and her Anglican family disowned her when she joined the Society of Friends . Her conversion, which made her the first Londoner to join the Quakers, probably happened around...

Timeline

1670: Members of a London jury headed by Edward...

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1670

Members of a London jury headed by Edward Bushel (called by a recent commentator disinterested . . . property-owners) professed themselves willing to go to jail rather than to convict against their consciences.
Sedley, Stephen. “From Victim to Suspect”. London Review of Books, 21 July 2005, pp. 15-17.
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16 March 1670: The borough council of Aberdeen, finding...

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16 March 1670

The borough council of Aberdeen, finding that its suppression of Catholic and Quaker meetings on 15 February was being flouted, moved to arrest all male Quakers at the next meeting.
Walker, William. The Bards of Bon-Accord, 1375-1860. Edmond and Spark, 1887.
92

18 July 1671: The Quaker women's meeting, begun by Ann...

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18 July 1671

The Quaker women's meeting, begun by Ann Stevens and Damaris Sanders , was held at Priestwood near Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire: it has been called the first documented women's meeting.
Feminist Companion Archive.

October 1671: The Swarthmoor Women's Monthly Meeting was...

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October 1671

The Swarthmoor Women's Monthly Meeting was instituted (perhaps the first women's meeting of Quakers outside London to become permanent, though the Great Missenden meeting had first met by July).
Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan, 1994.
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November 1671: The Quaker Thomas Milne of Aberdeen, who...

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November 1671

The QuakerThomas Milne of Aberdeen, who had buried his dead child in a kail-yard in preference to the Presbyterian grave-yard, was punished by a sentence of exile, closing his shop, and removing the body.
Walker, William. The Bards of Bon-Accord, 1375-1860. Edmond and Spark, 1887.
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1672: A Quaker committee set up by the first Yearly...

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1672

A Quakercommittee set up by the first Yearly Meeting began the work which resulted in decisions about members' publications: to vet them for acceptability, to finance, edit and distribute them, and to archive them.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
157

Late March 1673: The Test Act barred from office (even local...

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Late March 1673

The Test Act barred from office (even local office) anyone who declined to take the sacrament of the Church of England and an oath against the Catholic doctrine of Transubstantiation.
Bryant, Arthur. King Charles II. Longmans, Green, 1931.
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Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
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15 July 1673: The Publishing Committee of the Society of...

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15 July 1673

The Publishing Committee of the Society of Friends made the decision to archive two copies of every book published by a Quaker.
Friends House Staff Member,. Telephone conversation about the library at Friends House, London, with Isobel Grundy. 1998.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
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From September 1673: The Quakers set up a weekly Morning Meeting,...

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From September 1673

The Quakers set up a weekly Morning Meeting, in London changed with vetting texts submitted for publication.
Bracken, James K., and Joel Silver, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 170. Gale Research, 1996.
252

1677: By this year the Society of Friends included...

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1677

By this year the Society of Friends included prosperous merchants and traders in all the major centres in England and Ireland. At least fourteen substantial London merchants were Quakers, which provided a new motive...

1678: Quaker theologian Robert Barclay's Apology...

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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.
256

January 1678: An unidentified woman clerk thought it worth...

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January 1678

An unidentified woman clerk thought it worth while to write the history of the beginnings of the separate meeting of women Quakers at Priestwood near Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire.
Feminist Companion Archive.

1679: The Licensing Act of 1662 lapsed; penalties...

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1679

The Licensing Act of 1662 lapsed; penalties being no longer in force, Quaker printers began putting their names on the title-pages issuing from their shops.
Bracken, James K., and Joel Silver, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 170. Gale Research, 1996.
249

December 1681: The Privy Council moved against Quakers and...

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December 1681

The Privy Council moved against Quakers and Dissenters by enforcing past orders against them, like the Clarendon Code, which dated 1661 and the few years thereafter.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
153

March 1686: James II's General Pardon and Royal Warrant...

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March 1686

James II 's General Pardon and Royal Warrant released another batch of persecuted Quakers from prison.
Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan, 1994.
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