| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Literary Setting | Rebecca Harding Davis | The story presents the routine of working life for Welsh immigrants to the USA; in it RHD
seeks to articulate the impact of industrialism on the proletariat. Pfaelzer, Jean. Parlor Radical: Rebecca Harding Davis and the Origins of American Social Realism. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996. 26-7 |
| Literary Setting | Edna Lyall | The story revolves around Jacobite plots and persecution of Quakers
in the period when Queen Mary II
was Regent for her husband, William
, during his absences abroad. It introduces actual characters like the former... |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Amelia Opie | This was the first book that she published as a Quaker
, and to people in the Society of Friends she justified the practice of fiction by reminding them of the parables of Jesus. Though... |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Mary Howitt | |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Barbara Blaugdone | She was at this time probably a widow, and an active Quaker
minister and missionary. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Mary Fisher | |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Elizabeth Hooton | False Prophets and False Teachers Described was printed at London, bearing the authorial names of six Quakers
including EH
, Mary Fisher
, and Thomas Aldam
, all imprisoned in York Castle. Hooton's... |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Mary Penington | MP
, already securely a Quaker
, wrote her first autobiographical text: A Brief Account of Some of My Exercises from My Childhood . . .. 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. ix |
| Material Conditions of Writing | May Drummond | Disowned by the Society of Friends
in both Edinburgh and London, MD
issued a self-defensive broadsheet: To the Meeting Assembled in the Chamber at Gracechurch-Street, which appears to be her final publication. Drummond, May. To the Meeting assembled in the Chamber at Gracechurch-street. 1766. title-page Reilly, Matthew. “The Life and Literary Fictions of May Drummond, Quaker Female Preacher”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol. 28 , No. 2, Nov. 2015, pp. 287-12. 310 and n57 |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Amelia Opie | When she entered the Society of Friends
, AO
joined a group which was deeply suspicious of fiction and felt that writing ought to concentrate on truth-telling and moral instruction. Opie tried to conform, and... |
| Occupation | May Drummond | She was called to the ministry around 1734, which, Thomas Story reported, caused renewed pain to her family. Story, Thomas. The Life of Thomas Story. Isaac Thompson, 1747. 714 |
| Occupation | Rebecca Travers | RT
's visible ministry in London belongs to the years 1659-61. Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan, 1994. 141 |
| Occupation | Mary Peisley | |
| Occupation | Evelyn Sharp |
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