Society of Friends

Her father was a tenant farmer in the East Riding, and SSE later celebrated agricultural labour in one of her poems. She was brought up as a Quaker , but later rejected the Society...

Although SG was born in Ireland, her parents were English, stemming from propertied and professional families respectively. Memoirist Helen C. Black described her as coming alike on each side from a race of artistic...

She was said to have been well-connected, though whether this was through her parents or her husband is likewise unclear. Her contacts suggest that she was at least at ease with the upper classes, and...

Catherine Payton (later CP ) prayed, in our little meeting at Dudley, that she might become a Quaker minister.

She was born into the English middle class. Her mother had been a Quaker , who was disowned by the Friends on her marriage to a non-Quaker, but received back into the Society after the...

She left the Dublin cousin because she hated his Quaker religion. Naturally vivacious, this teenaged widow found her cousin's gloomy sense of sorrow and conviction, and his disapproval of singing and dancing more than...

This was seven years after they had met at AMS 's home in Utrecht, when Labadie first visited the city. The Labadists rejected the normally accepted outward forms of religious practice in...

Though not an active member of the Church of England , SG did admire the Church and its role in British culture. By her late adulthood, however, she also developed an interest in certain tenets...

Mary Ann Shadd came of mixed white and black (or, in her own word, colored) American heritage on both maternal and paternal sides. Her paternal great-grandfather came originally from Germany. The family was economically...

She had a final struggle to undertake before, while visiting her Quaker relatives at Philadelphia, she finally humbled her pride by joining the Society of Friends , which she had for so long despised...

CS 's family was church-going, Methodist . For a while she attended a Quaker meeting, but by the 1980s she described herself as notreligious.

MAK thought that the existential angst she suffered during her childhood was unique until she read Margaret Fuller 's Memoirs. She felt her unhappiness as a child and young woman was good for...

She was born into a white and wealthy English family. It had Quaker roots on both sides, but there are questions about whether or not she was brought up in the Society of Friends. The...

MAS was an earnest religious seeker. Brought up in the Society of Friends, she had years of doubt, of misery, of darkness, and became successively a Quaker , a Methodist , and finally a Moravian

Presumably white, DG was born into an upper-middle class family that was then comfortably off, but was financially devastated several years after her birth. Her religious allegiances present some confusion. She was brought up as...