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Article: Political Speaking Justified: Women Prophets and the English Revolution.(Book review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- March 22, 2007
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Teresa Feroli. Political Speaking Justified: Women Prophets and the English Revolution.
Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 2006. 270 pp. index. append. bibl. $49.50. ISBN: 0-87413-908-2.
In 1996 Hilary Hinds asked "Why does traditional literary history honour ... John Bunyan and not Anna Trapnel?" (God's Englishwomen, 2). Ten years on, the question has partly been answered, yet its needs are still not fully met. Teresa Feroli's study of three women--Trapnel herself, Eleanor Davies, and Margaret Fell--goes some valuable way toward meeting these needs, while raising others. Her book shows the importance of female prophecy--explaining the present and ...