God's Englishwomen

God's Englishwomen
Author: Hilary Hinds
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1996
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780719048869

This book offers a detailed study of the spiritual autobiographies and prophecies produced by Quaker, Baptist and Fifth Monarchist women, and asks how such a proliferation of texts was produced in a culture dismissive of women's writing.

Quaker Women Prophets in England and Wales, 1650-1700

Quaker Women Prophets in England and Wales, 1650-1700
Author: Christine Trevett
Publisher:
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2000
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

This study covers the formative and troubled years of earliest Quakerism in England and Wales, with some reference to migration to America. Women were active to a remarkable degree in the sects of this time. This volume concentrates on their contribution, and patterns of change in Quaker groups.