Domesticity and Dissent in the Seventeenth Century - English Women Writers and the Public Sphere - Katharine Gillespie - Paperback Bog - Cambridge
Brand: Cambridge University Press
Description
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 principles of toleration, the separation of church from state, privacy, and individualism.
