Gillespie examines writings by seventeenth-century English Puritan women who fought for religious freedom.
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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 prophesies of Elizabeth Poole; 4. The unquenchable smoking flax: Sarah Wight, Anne Wentworth, and the 'rise' of the sovereign individual; 5. Improving God's estate: preaching and the possessive economy in the writings of Mary Cary.