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

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Year of Publication:2004
Language:English
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Physical Description:xii, 272 p.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.