Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Sabrina versus the state
- 1 “Born of the mother's seed”: liberalism, feminism, and religious separatism
- 2 A hammer in her hand: Katherine Chidley and Anna Trapnel separate church from state
- 3 Cure for a diseased head: divorce and contract in the prophecies of Elizabeth Poole
- 4 The unquenchable smoking flax: Sarah Wight, Anne Wentworth, and the “rise” of the sovereign individual
- 5 Improving God's estate: pastoral servitude and the free market in the writings of Mary Cary
- Conclusion
- Index
4 - The unquenchable smoking flax: Sarah Wight, Anne Wentworth, and the “rise” of the sovereign individual
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Sabrina versus the state
- 1 “Born of the mother's seed”: liberalism, feminism, and religious separatism
- 2 A hammer in her hand: Katherine Chidley and Anna Trapnel separate church from state
- 3 Cure for a diseased head: divorce and contract in the prophecies of Elizabeth Poole
- 4 The unquenchable smoking flax: Sarah Wight, Anne Wentworth, and the “rise” of the sovereign individual
- 5 Improving God's estate: pastoral servitude and the free market in the writings of Mary Cary
- Conclusion
- Index
Summary
Fool do not boast, Thou canst not touch the freedom of my minde
The Lady in Comus (“Comus appears with his rabble, and the Lady set in an inchanted Chair, to whom he offers his Glass, which she puts by, and goes about to rise” – emphasis added)one grain of that precious faith, and one dram of love which the Lord gives his hidden ones, is far beyond all other things, that we can act or do; it's all of God, without our mixtures … My soul shouts forth with the true spiritualized Christian, this voice
Sarah Wight, A Wonderful, Pleasant and Profitable Letterfor obeying the Word of the Lord, and his Commandments, I am reproached as a proud, wicked, deceived, deluded, lying Woman; a mad, melancholy, crackbrained, self-willed, conceited Fool, and black sinner, led by whimsies, notions, and knick-knacks of my own head; one that speaks blasphemy, not fit to take the Name of God in her mouth; an Heathen and Publican, a Foretune-teller, an Enthusiast, and the like much more, whereof I appeal to God, to judge: And then let all slanderers challenge their own words.
Anne Wentworth, The Revelation of Jesus ChristThe deification of King Charles and Henrietta Maria at the climax of Carew's masque, Coelum Britannicum, was punctuated by special effects.
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- Domesticity and Dissent in the Seventeenth CenturyEnglish Women Writers and the Public Sphere, pp. 166 - 214Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004