Bizarrely tone deaf advertisement in London newspaper, 7 November 1941
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Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Manchester| General Editor, Literature & Theology 📚Voices of Thunder: Radical Religious Women of the Seventeenth Century (2025) https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/voices-of-thunder
A woman leaves the following to her children in her 1681 will 🤔 To my son Henry, 10s, a six year old sheep and a stall of bees; To my daughter Joan, £2, my best hat, my best suit, my cloth waistcoat, black suit, two stalls of bees, all my poultry and a box; 1/2
A woman leaves the following to her children in her 1681 will 🤔 To my son Henry, 10s, a six year old sheep and a stall of bees; To my daughter Joan, £2, my best hat, my best suit, my cloth waistcoat, black suit, two stalls of bees, all my poultry and a box; 1/2
… or, let’s say, as serious individuals, as you assume the men are in the same mystical group? From a book published in 1996 #earlymodern
Rose Thurgood’s autobiographical account, describing what it felt like to be facing starvation in England in the 1630s, is on display at the Rylands Library in Manchester. It’s thrilling that this incredible woman is getting the attention she so deserves 💫 @thejohnrylands.bsky.social
An English woman insisting on inclusive language in 1684! The main text refers to “man” and Ann Bathurst corrects this in the margin - “that is … men & women” #earlymodern
An English woman insisting on inclusive language in 1684! The main text refers to “man” and Ann Bathurst corrects this in the margin - “that is … men & women” #earlymodern
“”Voices of Thunder” is both smart and approachable”, demonstrating an “unappreciated breadth of possibilities for women in English radicalism” ✨ Thank you @jliedl.bsky.social for this lovely review in Sixteenth-Century Journal 📚 @16csociety.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social
Seeing a partial eclipse bears the same relation to seeing a total eclipse as kissing a man does to marrying him ~ Annie Dillard, “Total Eclipse”
… sick almost to doomsday with eclipse. ~ Hamlet 1.1.119
Today I discovered that a letter attributed to a man was actually written by Ann Bathurst, the 17th-century visionary woman I’m researching. 🤩 Archival work might be slow and painstaking but it’s totally thrilling to be going in search of lost voices from the past and finding them! 📚
On this day in 1679, Ann Bathurst was just getting going with her diary. She was already having transcendent visions - today she felt “a sweet breathing flame” ✍🏻 Image from MS Mun.A.7.64 @chethamslibrary.bsky.social
Just so sick of male violence against women. That’s it.
It’s brilliant to get my hands on this beauty at last! Proud to have chapter on ugliness in this great collection @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social #beauty #earlymodern #gender #shakespeare
Blackbird’s nest in garden - in just over 2 weeks from eggs to little birds
In December 1680 there was a harmony of harping, and this has improved my day immeasurably
“Assumptions about the intrinsically ‘backward’ character of premodern religion not only leave the women of the past opaque to us but make the oppressions of our own time harder to see, too.” —an interview with Erin Maglaque
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For the last day of #womenshistorymonth, a reminder that literary history, like other forms of history, has blind spots. Women - often “ordinary” women - wrote some of the most innovative works of the 17th century, including prophecies and visionary forms of prose. They’re worth reading! 📚
Gorgeous flourishes in a woman’s spiritual diary (late 17th century) - the letters seem to take off and dance across the page #earlymodern
In an altogether excellent list of imp names, Griezzell Greedigutt is a particular standout Image from Hopkins, “The Discovery of Witches”, 1647 #earlymodern
This image is on the front of my book! How has it found its way onto a card? 👀
Murray Gove@earlymodernmurray.bsky.social · 6mo agoI never thought I’d see an early modern woodcut of women prophets on a ‘girls’ night out’ card.
