Society of Friends

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
death Anne Conway
More commented, I perceive and bless God for it, that my Lady Conway was my Lady Conway to her Last Breath.
Conway, Anne et al. The Conway Letters. Editor Hutton, Sarah, Revised, Clarendon Press, 1992.
451
As a Quaker she wrote a codicil to her will, revoking her order...
death Kathleen E. Innes
KEI was buried in the churchyard of St Peter's Church, St Mary Bourne, Hampshire. After the funeral, the Society of Friends held a short service at the graveside, at which George, her husband of...
death Elizabeth Ashbridge
EA died on her Quaker missionary journey around Ireland, at a Friend's house in County Carlow.
Ashbridge, Elizabeth, and Arthur Charles Curtis. Quaker Grey. Astolat Press, 1904.
83-4
Education Sarah Stickney Ellis
She later spent the years 1813-16 at a Quaker school at Ackworth.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Education Mary Sewell
At the age of fifteen she ceased regular study, and began reading on her own. She spent much of the time at Friends ' meetings going over passages from Byron , Southey , Moore ...
Education Elizabeth Jolley
When she was eleven, Elizabeth Knight (later EJ ) began to attend Sibford School at Sibford Ferris in ruralOxfordshire, run by the Friends (Quakers) but open to children of other faiths as well.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
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.
Employer Katharine Evans
Her extensive travel during the 1650s (through all the component parts of Britain) was undertaken in the course of witnessing to her Quaker faith. Her ministry extended to distant parts of Britain and later overseas.
Graham, Elspeth et al., editors. Her Own Life. Routledge, 1989.
118
Family and Intimate relationships Anna Letitia Waring
ALW 's uncle Samuel Miller Waring had left the Society of Friends to join the Anglican Church, and had published Sacred Melodies (1826), a collection of hymns. Through her uncle's example she was strengthened in...
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Scott
After MS 's death, her husband moved to Manchester, where he opened a Quaker school. He died in 1817 at the age of sixty-four.
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Peisley
MP was married at Mountrath to Samuel Neale , a paper-maker who had converted to the Society of Friends through her preaching; that very evening she addressed the assembled Friends, her guests.
Peisley, Mary, and Samuel Neale. Some Account of the Life and Religious Exercises of Mary Neale, formerly Mary Peisley. John Gough, 1795.
119-20
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Family and Intimate relationships Alice Meynell
Wilfrid Meynell was the seventh child of eight in a Quaker family. In 1875 he read a poem by Alice Thompson in the Pall Mall Gazette and told Father Lockhart , a friend, that she...
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Fisher
MF (who had once answered a magistrate enquiring her husband's name that she had no husband but Jesus Christ)
qtd. in
Peters, Kate. Print Culture and the Early Quakers. Cambridge University Press, 2005.
76
married another notable Quaker spokesman, a ship's captain by trade, William Bayly .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Family and Intimate relationships L. S. Bevington
Alexander Bevington , LSB 's father, was also born on the edge of Colchester, at Lexden in Essex. His family had ties to George Fox (a founding member of the Society of Friends
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck
Her father, Samuel Galton , had intellectual interests; he belonged to the Lunar Society . By trade he was a gunmaker, an avocation which drew some disapproval from the Society of Friends , to which...
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Leadbeater
Her half-brother, another Abraham , who took over the school when their father retired, was a man of deep thought, immense conscientiousness, and oppositional temperament. His pacifist convictions caused him to strike a number of...

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