1st Edition

Baptist Women's Writings in Revolutionary Culture, 1640-1680

By Rachel Adcock Copyright 2015
232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

Although literary-historical studies have often focused on the range of dissenting religious groups and writers that flourished during the English Revolution, they have rarely had much to say about seventeenth-century Baptists, or, indeed, Baptist women. Baptist Women’s Writings in Revolutionary Culture, 1640-1680 fills that gap, exploring how female Baptists played a crucial role in the group’s... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 ‘Frantique Handmaids’; Chapter 2 ‘Valiant Deborahs’; Chapter 3 ‘Mothers in Israel’; Chapter 4 The Woman’s Seed; Chapter 101 Conclusion;

Biography

Rachel Adcock is Lecturer in English at Keele University, UK.