Visionary Women
Subtitle: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England
Publisher: Univ of California Pr
Published: January 1993
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 482
ISBN-13: 9780520078451
Subjects: Society of Friends; Religion; Society Of Friends (Quakers); Women And Religion (General); Spirituality; Christianity; Quakers (Religious Society of Friends); Spirit communication & mediumship, spiritualism; Women's studies; c 1600 to c 1700; England; 17th century; History; Prophecy; Quaker women
First sentence: Lady Eleanor Davies, whose lifetime saw the death of Queen Elizabeth and the beheading of King Charles I, was the wealthy daughter of an earl, wife of the attorney general for Ireland, mistress of a great estate, and the mother of two children; she was also a prophet.