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Article: Jane Leade: Biography of a Seventeenth-Century Mystic.(Book review)
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- Church History
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- March 1, 2007
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Jane Leade: Biography of a Seventeenth-Century Mystic. By Julie Hirst. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2005. xii + 160 pp. $89.95 cloth.
The author begins her work with this statement: "Jane Leade was probably the most important female religious leader and prolific woman author in late seventeenth-century England" (1). Leade (1624-1704) was born into a well-situated gentry family in north Norfolk. Her father was an important figure in local society, and Jane had some opportunity to acquire an education in the family home, and her upbringing probably tended in the direction of the parliamentary side in the wars. Hirst speculates, however, that if Calvinism might have had ...
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