Acknowledgements

Abbreviations and Conventions

Contributors

Introduction (Sylvia Brown)

PART ONE QUAKER WOMEN AND RADICAL ACTIVISM ACROSS THE BOUNDARIES

Prophetic Cries at Whitehall: The Gender Dynamics of Early Quaker Women's Injurious Speech (Kirilka Stavreva)

The Radical Travels of Mary Fisher: Walking and Writing in the Universal Light (Sylvia Brown)

Seven Thousand "Hand-Maids and Daughters of the Lord": Lincolnshire and Cheshire Quaker Women's Anti-Tithe Protests in Late Interregnum and Restoration England (Stephen A. Kent)

"Truly Dear Hearts": Family and Spirituality in Quaker Women's Writings 1680–1750 (Sheila Wright)

PART TWO PROPHETESSES: RADICAL REVISIONS OF KNOWLEDGE, GENDER, BODY, SELF

"Break down the walls of flesh": Anna Trapnel, John James, and Fifth Monarchist Self-Representation (Naomi Baker)

A "Remarkable Female of Womankind": Gender, Scripture, and Knowledge in the Writings of M. Marsin (Sarah Apetrei)

"Mother of Love": Spiritual Maternity in the Works of Jane Lead (1624–1704) (Julie Hirst)

"I Wish to Be Nothing": The Role of Self-Denial in the Mystical Theology of Anna Maria van Schurman (Bo Karen Lee)

PART THREE WOMEN AND RADICALISM ACROSS EUROPE, ACROSS CONFESSIONS

Mouldered Away in the Tower With the Fruit of the Womb? On the Treatment of Pregnant Anabaptist Women under Criminal Law (Marion Kobelt-Groch, translated by Dennis L. Slabaugh)

"They are but Women": Mary Ward, 1585–1645 (Pamela Ellis)

Cherchez la femme: Radical Religion in the Life and Poetry of Luisa de Carvajal (José Manuel González)

"A Wise and Godly Sybilla": Viscountess Ranelagh and the Politics of International Protestantism (Ruth Connolly)

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