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self portrait done in Needlework of Mary Morris Knowles, c.1776 (Royal Collection). Mary Morris Knowles (1733–1807), was an English Quaker poet and abolitionist.She spoke out in favour of choosing her own spouse, argued on behalf of scientific education for women, helped develop a new form of needle painting, confronted Samuel Johnson, defied James Boswell, and supported abolition of the ...
Jones took over the school in 1761, when Mary Jones became ill. After Mary's death, another Quaker minister, Hannah Cathrall, joined the school as a teacher. They taught girls and boys. By 1764, their Quaker students' tuitions were subsidized by the William Penn Charter School. Jones taught while travelling to preach through the 1760s and 1770s.
The Quaker Family in Colonial America: A Portrait of the Society of Friends (1973), emphasis on social structure and family life. Frost, J. William. "The Origins of the Quaker Crusade against Slavery: A Review of Recent Literature," Quaker History 67 (1978): 42–58. JSTOR 41946850. Hamm, Thomas. The Quakers in America.
Richard Hubberthorne (1628 (baptized) – 17 August 1662 [1]) was an early Quaker preacher and writer active in the 1650s and early 1660s until his death in Newgate prison. Hubberthorne is generally overshadowed by more famous early Quakers like George Fox , James Nayler , and Edward Burrough .
The Sorrows of the Quaker Jesus: James Nayler and the Puritan Crackdown on the Free Spirit. [16] (1996). Refutation of some of the more Modern Misrepresentations of the Society of Friends commonly called Quakers, with a Life of James Nayler, by Joseph Gurney Bevan. (1800). Memoir of the Life, Ministry, Trial, and Sufferings of James Nayler. (1719).
Isaac was gaoled half a dozen times for offences including refusing to take an oath, and attending a Quaker meeting, which was forbidden. Mary had five children with Penington. Her daughter by her first marriage, Gulielma, married William Penn. Soon after Isaac's death in 1679, Mary went into decline. She died in 1680.
In 1825 her autobiography "The life of Mary Dudley, with some account of the illness and death of her daughter, Hannah" was published after being edited by her daughter Elizabeth Dudley. [3] Her daughter Elizabeth Dudley became a leading Quaker [5] and her son Charles Stokes Dudley was active in the British and Foreign Bible Society.
Parnell's story was subsequently told to children all over the world by members of the Society of Friends, and he became known as ‘the boy martyr’, the first person to die for the Quaker faith. He was not the first Quaker to die for the faith; more properly he was the first well-known figure to die. A street is named after him in Colchester.
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