Society of Friends

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Joan Vokins
When JV began to think about converting to Quakerism, her immediate family opposed it. In the end, however, they all followed her into the Society of Friends . She later wrote that her relationship with...
Family and Intimate relationships Anne Whitehead
Anne Downer (later AW ) made her first, brief marriage, when already a Quaker and in her late thirties, to Benjamin Greenwell .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Mollineux
She had first met him in prison the year before; he shared her Quaker beliefs and activism. After her death he testified that he had decided in prison that he wanted to marry her, but...
Family and Intimate relationships Anne Whitehead
Anne Greenwell made her second marriage, to George Whitehead , a grocer, legal expert, and veteran of prison, about twelve years her junior, who was known for his defences of Friends both in court and...
Friends, Associates Mary Peisley
MP formed close relationships with many of her fellow Quakers, as it was the practice of the Society to do, by means of sharing work and travel with them. She mentions particularly in her letters...
Friends, Associates Joan Whitrow
Close friends with JW at the time of her children's deaths were the QuakersSarah Ellis , Ann Martin , and especially Rebecca Travers . Later, at Twickenham, she became a friend of the barber-surgeon Mathias Perkins .
“People. Joan Whitrow”. The Twickenham Museum.
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Hooton
Her associates among the Society of Friends included the eminent, like George Fox , and the obscure, like Joan Brooksop .
Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. University of California Press, 1992.
127-8
Joan Vokins , who was thirty years younger, sent Hooton her dear love...
Friends, Associates Anne Conway
AC corresponded with and was visited by many leading members of the Society of Friends , among them Keith , Robert Barclay , Anne and George Whitehead , Isaac Penington , William Penn , and...
Friends, Associates Anne Audland
The Society of Friends lived up to its name. AA belonged to a network of activists who kept closely in touch, finding time in their busy lives for affectionate and detailed correspondence.
Friends, Associates Katharine Evans
Among other warm relationships she formed with fellow members of the Society of Friends , the most important was with Sarah Chevers or Cheevers , with whom she shared voyages and persecution. Chevers, about ten...
Intertextuality and Influence Rebecca Travers
This was designed to refute controversial texts published against Quaker doctrine by Robert Cobbet (A Word to the Upright, 1668) and Elizabeth Atkinson (Breif [sic] and Plain Discovery of the Labourers in...
Intertextuality and Influence Katharine Evans
The reprintings show the impact that this text had on contemporary Quakers . Anthologists Elspeth Graham , Elaine Hobby , Hilary Hinds , and Helen Wilcox call it as much a text of love as of resistance.
Graham, Elspeth et al., editors. Her Own Life. Routledge, 1989.
119
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Hooton
EH 's thinking helped shape that of George Fox and thus of the Quaker movement as a whole. Emily Manners published a booklet about her for the Friends Historical Society in 1914.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Literary responses M. Marsin
Her writings do not appear to have reached a wide audience.
Burns, William E. “’By Him the Women will be delivered from that Bondage, which some has found intolerable’: M. Marsin, English Millenarian Feminist”. Eighteenth-Century Women: Studies in their Lives, Work, and Culture, edited by Linda V. Troost, Vol.
1
, 2001, pp. 19-38.
33
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography notes that MM is more outspokenly feminist than Quaker writers of her own day, though not than...
Literary responses Sarah Chapone
Mary Delany , who read this work in manuscript, called it ingenious (in that word's old-fashioned meaning of learned or scholarly), but thought that the legal aspect still needed revision.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
The book received praise from...

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