page_title: Hannah Allen
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Hannah Allen / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: St Peter's parish church, Snelston, Derbyshire, seen from the southwest
context_page_description: Hannah Allen, was a 17th-century British nonconformist writer, who suffered from religious insanity.
context_section_description: While suffering from depression, she married, c. 1655, the merchant, Hannibal Allen (died 1663), and they had a son. After the husband's death, she expressed a form of insanity in religious form, characterized in her case by depression, self-doubt, and low appetite. The minister, John Shorthose, aided in her mental improvement which occurred between April 1666 and the spring of 1668, at which time she married Charles Hatt, a widower of Warwickshire, having joined a Presbyterian congregation in London beforehand.
  Allen's rhapsodical work, Satan, his methods and malice baffled : a narrative of God's gracious dealings with Mrs. Hannah Allen, (afterwards married to Mr. Hatt) reciting the great advantages the devil made of her deep melancholy, and the triumphant victories, rich and sovereign graces, God gave her over all his stratagems and devices, was published by John Wallis, in London, in 1683.
caption: St Peter's Church in Snelston - Allen had links to the village throughout her life.[1]
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