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Author Gillespie, Katharine.

Title Domesticity and dissent in the seventeenth-century [electronic resource] : English women writers and the public sphere / Katharine Gillespie.

Imprint Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

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Description xii, 272 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject 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.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
Added Title Domesticity and dissent in the 17th-century
ISBN 051118770X
052183063X

 
    
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