Prophetic Writings of Lady Eleanor Davies (Women Writers in English 1350-1850) - Softcover

Davies, Lady Eleanor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195087178 ISBN 13: 9780195087178

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1996

Synopsis

Eleanor Davies was one of the most prolific women writing in early seventeenth-century England. This volume includes 38 of the sixty-odd tracts that she published. Inspired to prophecy by a visionary experience in 1625, the year of Charles I's accession to the throne, she devoted herself to warning her contemporaries that the Day of Judgment was imminent. Her zeal and her intricately constructed tracts confounded contemporaries who called her mad. She experienced repeated imprisonment and also confinement to Bedlam, London's mental hospital. The tracts tell her own story as woman and prophet. They offer an opportunity to study her experiences as wife, mother, and widow; they also exhibit her extraordinary intellect, extensive education, and fascination with words. In showing how England's history was fulfilling the biblical prophecies in the book of Daniel and the book of Revelation, she commented about the political and religious controversies of the turbulent period preceding and during the English Civil War and Revolution.

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Review:

An important addition to the `canon' in carefully edited, accessible, and affordable text. (Dr. K. Blumreich, Grand Valley State University)

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0195087178
• ISBN 13: 9780195087178
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 408