Domesticity and dissent in the seventeenth-century : English women writers and the public sphere / Katharine Gillespie.

Domesticity and dissent in the seventeenth-century : English women writers and the public sphere /

In Domesticity and Dissent Katharine Gillespie examines writings by seventeenth-century English Puritan women who fought for religious freedom. Seeking the right to preach and prophesy, women such as Katherine Chidley, Anna Trapnel, Elizabeth Poole, and Anne Wentworth envisioned the modern political...

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Main Author: Gillespie, Katharine
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Subjects:
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Literature and history > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
English literature > Puritan authors > History and criticism.
English literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Dissenters, Religious > England > History > 17th century.
Women and literature > England > History > 17th century.
Puritan women > England > Intellectual life.
Dissenters, Religious, in literature.
Great Britain > History > Civil War, 1642-1649 > Literature and the war.
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