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Unbridled spirits : women of the English Revolution, 1640-1660
- Title
- Unbridled spirits : women of the English Revolution, 1640-1660 / Stevie Davies.
- Author
- Davies, Stevie.
- Publication
- London : Women's Press, 1998.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | DA407.A1 D29 1998 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xii, 356 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- Unbridled Spirits is a vibrant and authoritative study of the women of the 17th century, women who found the means to speak out and demand change at a time when a woman could be publicly humiliated, bridled and tortured for scolding her husband.
- Alternative Title
- Women of the English Revolution, 1640-1660
- Subject
- 1600-1699
- Women revolutionaries > Great Britain > Biography
- Women > England > History > 17th century
- Women > England > Social conditions
- Women
- Women revolutionaries
- Women > Social conditions
- Vrouwen
- Engelse Burgeroorlog
- Great Britain > History > Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660 > Biography
- Great Britain > History > Women. > Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660
- England
- Great Britain
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [322]-342) and index.
- Contents
- Women of spirit -- The writing ont he wall : Lady Eleanor Davies -- Peace women & sea-green levellers : Elizabeth Lilburne, Mary Overton & Katharine Chidley -- A note on 7000 incendiary handmaids : the Quaker women's petition of 1659 -- Master Edwards' gangrene : Thomas Edwards, Katharine Chidley & Mrs Attaway -- The spirit of therapy in an empty nothing creature : Sarah Wight & Henry Jessey -- Women counsellors for men of blood : Elizabeth Pool, Mary Pope, Elizabeth Warren, Mary Cary) -- Anna Trapnel's journey to Cornwall (Anna Trapnel, Fifth Monarchy & a witch-trying women with her great pin) -- Three Puritan marriages (Ralph & Jane Josselin, Nehemiah & gGrace Wallington, Lucy & John Hutchinson).
- George Fox, Margaret Fell & a Commonwealth of daughters -- Anna's trumpet blasts the Quakers -- Quaker women on the road (Barbara Blaugdone, Katharine Evans & Sarah Chevers, Mary Fisher, Mary Dyer, Joan Dant) -- Conclusion : the Restoration.
- ISBN
- 0704350823
- 9780704350823
- 0704344890
- 9780704344891
- LCCN
- 99224342
- OCLC
- ocm39489235
- 39489235
- SCSB-381891
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library