Priscilla Wakefield: Tottenham activist
Priscilla Wakefield: Tottenham activist
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  • Priscilla Wakefield
    • Life and times
    • Family >
      • Next generation
    • Declining health
    • Memorial
    • Where she lived
  • Economist
    • Female Benefit Club
    • First Savings Bank
    • Account of Savings Bank
    • Financial inclusion heroine
    • Microfinance >
      • Finding out more
      • Books on microfinance
  • Educationalist
    • Supporter of Girls Education
  • Writer
  • Women
    • Lying-in charity
    • Women in Tottenham's past
  • Activism Now
    • Tottenham Today >
      • Breadline London
      • Quaker Garden
      • Living under One Sun
      • Marcus Garvey Library
      • StART Housing
      • Stop the HDV
      • A Tale of Stadium-led Regeneration
      • Taxpayers Against Poverty
      • Wards Corner: shop locally
    • Quaker: New Economy
    • Quaker: Sustainability
  • Resources
    • Priscilla's books
    • Who we are
    • Priscilla Wakefield banner
In such company, scandal and small talk sank away dismayed and
gave place to science, imaginations and useful conversation
.
Such society forms so the most balmy enjoyments of this mortal state.

Tottenham

Priscilla Wakefield lived on Tottenham Green near Tottenham High Cross.  During her lifetime Tottenham was a semi-rural upper middle class area with farms, nurseries and smallholdings dotted across the landscape.

London Friends
Anna Laetitia Barbauld
Referred to as Mrs. Barbauld in the literature of the period, the largely home-schooled daughter of a schoolmaster came from a prominent liberal family and moved in distinguished circles throughout her life.

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.



Amelia Opie

Ipswich Friends

Mrs Reeve
Mrs Cobbold




Neighbours

Luke Howard

Luke Howard, 'Namer of Clouds', moved to the other side of Tottenham Green shortly before Priscilla left London, however he attended the Tottenham Quaker meeting house for some before moving to the area.

BG Windus

Benjamin Godfrey Windus, one of the painter JMW Turner’s great patrons, lived on Tottenham Green but he was too young to be a collector while Priscilla lived in Tottenham.

William Forster

The Hobson

The Hobsons were a Quaker family who lived in Markfield House. They enjoyed music and dance much to the concern of the Tottenham Meeting House.
Picture

Contact: PWForgottenHeroine@gmail.com

Follow: Priscilla Wakefield on Twitter @TottenhamQuaker