Society of Friends

VW was the daughter not only of an educated man, but of one of the most influential intellectuals in late Victorian England. Her family on both sides was part of the intellectual ascendancy....

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.

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, and yet more shockingly sometimes...

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 . As an...

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...

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...

HC was an Evangelical, and may have been a Quaker or a Methodist .

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.

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...

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...

MF and her family were converted to Quakerism by George Fox .

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.

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 .

SH , religiously awakened by a dangerous brush with smallpox, converted from Anglicanism and joined the Society of Friends .

WP writes about her Quaker forebears, of great-grandparents who lived in middle-class comfort in villages since swallowed by urban encroachment.