Visionary Women
Subtitle: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: January 5, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 454
ISBN-13: 9780520089372
Subjects: Quakers (Religious Society of Friends); Spirit communication & mediumship, spiritualism; Women's studies; c 1600 to c 1700; Religion; History; History - General History; History: World; England; Christianity - General; Europe - General; History / General; General
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.