Publications
Books
Anne Wentworth
Anne Wentworth (1629/30–?) was a Particular Baptist from London who achieved both fame and notoriety for writing prophesies and religious texts during the English Restoration.
Domesticity and Dissent
In Domesticity and Dissent, Katharine Gillespie examines writings by seventeenth-century English Puritan women who fought for religious freedom.
Women Writing the English Republic
Scholars have fiercely debated the causes of the English Civil Wars and the rise of anti-monarchical and republican thought a century before the American Revolution.
Katherine Chidley: Printed Writings
Katherine Chidley was a religious and political activist who dissented from the established church throughout the 1620s, 30s and 40s; supported the parliamentarian cause against the royalists during the English civil wars.
The Prophetess and the Patriarch
In 1649, a seamstress named Elizabeth Poole appeared at the Whitehall debates in London to prophesy in front of Parliament’s army shortly after it had defeated the crown in the English civil wars.