Research Catalog

Title

Margaret Fell : mother of Quakerism / by Isabel Ross.

Author

Ross, Isabel

Publication

London ; New York ; Toronto : Longmans, Green and Co, [1949]

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Details

Additional Authors

Longmans, Green, and Co., publisher.

Description

xvi, 421 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portrait, facsimile; 22 cm

Subject

• Fell, Margaret, 1614-1702
• Quakers > Biography
• Quakers

Genre/Form

• collective biographies.
• Biographies.

Note

• Map on lining papers.

Bibliography (note)

• "Principal sources and books of reference": p. xiii-xvi.

Contents

• Swarthmoor Hall in the seventeenth century -- George Fox's first coming -- The family and household at Swarthmoor -- Margaret Fell's work for Quakerism, 1652-60 -- Margaret Fell's work for Quakers, 1653-8 -- Margaret Fell and members of Swarthmoor meeting, from 1652 -- Margaret Fell and the Jews, 1655-77 -- Margaret Fell and James Nayler, 1652-60 -- Judge Fell, 1652-8 -- Margaret Fell's first visit to London, 1660, 1661, and how she freed the prisoners -- Marriages, persecution, journeys, 1661-3 -- Trial and sentence of Praemunire, 1663-5 -- Imprisonment at Lancaster Castle I, 1664- January 1665 -- Imprisonment in Lancaster Castle II, 1665-8 -- Two marriages, 1668-9 -- Margaret Fox's second imprisonment, 1670-1 -- Journeys ; Building up the Society, 1671-5 -- Life at Swarthmoor Hall, 1673-8 -- Women's meetings and the work of Margaret Fox and her daughters for them -- Journeys, marriages and persecution, 1677-89 -- Margaret Fox and her family relationships -- Margaret Fox's public Quaker work, 1691-1702.
• Appendices. 1. (Chapter 1) More details of Swarthmoor Hall -- 2. (Chapter 1) Bulstrode Whitelock -- 3. (Chapter 1) The Askews -- 4. (Chapter 2) How George Fox travelled [i.e. traveled] -- 5. (Chapter 2) Sources for story of Fox's first coming to Swarthmoor -- 6. (Chapter 3) The Free Grammar School of Hawkshead -- 7. (Chapter 6) Letter from Henry Fell -- 8. (Chapter 6) Members of Swarthmoor meeting as Quaker missionaries -- 9. (Chapter 8) Margaret Fell's letter to James Nayler, 15 October 1656 -- 10. (Chapter 9) Judge Fell's will -- 11. (Chapter 20) Letter from Margaret Fox to Lord Ancram -- 12. (Chapter 21) Letter from Margaret Fox to Daniel and Rachel Abraham ; Letter from Sarah Meade to Margaret Fox -- 13. (Chapter 22) The will of Margaret Fox -- 14. Margaret Fell's writings -- 15. Chronology of Margaret Fell's life -- Index.

LCCN

49010415

OCLC

• ocm02962867
• 2962867
• SCSB-150515

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library