Some Account of Circumstances in the Life of Mary Pennington [sic.]from Her Manuscript, Left for Her Family

Mary Penington

Jan 1821 · Harvey and Darton

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"I resolved never to go back to those things I had left, having discovered death and darkness to be in them; but would rather be without a religion until the Lord taught me one." This book, actually 2 very long historical descriptions was written by Lady Mary Pennington to her daughter and he grandson. This first part is her own struggles with the church she was brought up in, and her disillusionment with it's formulaic necessity and her subsequent leaving until she found a more fitting form with George Fox, the "author" of "Quakerism"; her conversion, and the Pennington's which changed their fortunes spectacularly. The second part is to her grandson: the son of her first daughter,Gulielma Maria, speaking primarily of his grandfather Sir William Springett and his role as a knight and place in aristocratic society. Although by the reports of this particular book has the author as "anonymous", the "google books copy" I own is a scan of an original and is attributed to Mary Fagge Proude