Although literary-historical studies have often focused on the
range of dissenting religious groups and writers that flourished
during the English Revolution, they have rarely had much to say
about seventeenth-century Baptists, or, indeed, Baptist women.
Baptist Women's Writings in Revolutionary Culture, 1640-1680 fills
that gap, exploring how female Baptists played a crucial role in
the group's formation and growth during the 1640s and 50s, by their
active participation in religious and political debate, and their
desire to evangelise their followers. The study significantly
challenges the idea that women, as members of these congregations,
were unable to write with any kind of textual authority because
they were often prevented from speaking aloud in church meetings.
On the contrary, Adcock shows that Baptist women found their way
into print to debate points of church organisation and doctrine, to
defend themselves and their congregations, to evangelise others by
example and by teaching, and to prophesy, and discusses the
rhetorical tactics they utilised in order to demonstrate the value
of women's contributions. In the course of the study, Adcock
considers and analyses the writings of little-studied Baptist
women, Deborah Huish, Katherine Sutton, and Jane Turner, as well as
separatist writers Sara Jones, Susanna Parr, and Anne Venn. She
also makes due connection to the more familiar work of Agnes
Beaumont, Anna Trapnel, and Anne Wentworth, enabling a reassessment
of the significance of those writings by placing them in this wider
context. Writings by these female Baptists attracted serious
attention, and, as Adcock discusses, some even found a
trans-national audience.
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