Domesticity and dissent in the seventeenth-century English women writers and the public sphere / [electronic resource] :
Domesticity and dissent in the 17th-century
Katharine Gillespie.
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
- xii, 272 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Sabrina versus the state -- 1. "Born of the mother's seed": liberalism, feminism, and religious separatism -- 2. A hammer in her hand: Katherine Chidley and Anna Trapnel separate church from state -- 3. Cure for a diseased head: divorce and contract in the prophecies of Elizabeth Poole -- 4. The unquenchable smoking flax: Sarah Wight, Anne Wentworth, and the "rise" of the sovereign individual -- 5. Improving God's estate: pastoral servitude and the free market in the writings of Mary Cary.
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English literature--History and criticism.--Early modern, 1500-1700 Literature and history--History--Great Britain--17th century. English literature--Puritan authors--History and criticism. English literature--Women authors--History and criticism. Dissenters, Religious--History--England--17th century. Women and literature--History--England--17th century. Puritan women--Intellectual life.--England Dissenters, Religious, in literature.
Great Britain--History--Literature and the war.--Civil War, 1642-1649