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  • Prophetic Writings of Lady Eleanor Davies

    Prophetic Writings of Lady Eleanor Davies by Davies, Eleanor; Cope, Esther S.;

    Series: Women Writers in English 1350-1850;

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    • Publisher OUP USA
    • Date of Publication 25 April 1996

    • ISBN 9780195087178
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages400 pages
    • Size 210x136x27 mm
    • Weight 485 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    Inspired to prophesy by a visionary experience in 1625 (the year of Charles I's accession), Eleanor Davies devoted the remainder of her life to the prolific production of eschatological tracts. Her extraordinary intellect and extensive education are reflected in the intricate construction of the pieces, which offer commentary on a number of the political and religious controversies surrounding the English Civil War and Revolution.

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    Eleanor Davies was one of the most prolific women writing in early seventeenth-century England. This volume includes 38 of the sixty-odd tracts that she published. Inspired to prophecy by a visionary experience in 1625, the year of Charles I's accession to the throne, she devoted herself to warning her contemporaries that the Day of Judgement was imminent. Her zeal and her intricately constructed tracts confounded contemporaries who called her mad. She experienced repeated imprisonment and also confinement to Bedlam, London's mental hospital. The tracts tell her own story as woman and prophet. They offer an opportunity to study her experiences as wife, mother, and widow; they also exhibit her extraordinary intellect, extensive education, and her fascination with words. In showing how England's history was fulfilling the biblical prophecies in the book of Daniel and Revelation, she commented about the political and religious controversies of the turbulent period preceding and during the Englsih Civil War and Revolution.

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