Women's Prophetic Writings in Seventeenth-Century Britain

This study examines women’s prophetic writings in seventeenth-century Britain as the literary outcome of a discourse of social transformation that integrates religious conscience, political participation, and gender identity. The following pages approach prophecy as a culture, a language, and a catalyst for collective change as the individual prophet conceptualized it.

While the corpus of prophetic writing continues to grow as the result of archival research, this monograph complements our p...