Phyllis Mack

Standard Name: Mack, Phyllis

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation Hester Biddle
HB 's exact social rank is unknown, but historian Phyllis Mack says she came from an artisan or small trading family.
Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. University of California Press, 1992.
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Cultural formation Hannah Allen
She heard voices of men singing, and believed they were devils singing for joy at her damnation. She became convinced of what she later called a delusion: that God revealed to me that I...
Cultural formation Anne Audland
Historian Phyllis Mack believes that north-country culture, based on the unit of the extended family, accorded considerable authority to women, and also that Friends from the north tended to hold a more transcendental and less...
Family and Intimate relationships Margaret Fell
After eleven years of widowhood, MF was married at Bristol to George Fox , with whom she had already been a fellow-worker for years.
Phyllis Mack apparently gives the date in Old Style, as 18 October.
Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. University of California Press, 1992.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/, http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Fox, George, Henry J. Cadbury, and Geoffrey Fillingham Nuttall. The Journal of George Fox. Editor Nickalls, John L., Cambridge University Press, 1952.
555n2
Literary responses Anne Audland
Literary historian Phyllis Mack has noted how Audland writes a woman's language to Fell, conforming to feminine stereotype in sweetness of tone and imagery from the natural world, while in a speech delivered in court...
Literary responses Dorothy White
Historian Phyllis Mack judges that this text battered the Weymouth congregation.
Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. University of California Press, 1992.
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Literary responses Anne Audland
Historian Phyllis Mack characterises her manner as Baconian plainness and verbal exactitude.
Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. University of California Press, 1992.
254
politics Anne Audland
AA stayed at Banbury in Oxfordshire while her husband went on to Bristol; there, after standing public trial for blasphemy, she was imprisoned for eighteen months.
Phyllis Mack gives a date of 1654 to one...
Author summary Elizabeth Hooton
EH , the earliest of the female Quaker writers, left a printed prophecy, petition, and testimony, as well as a manuscript attack on colonial settlements in New England. Literary historian Phyllis Mack observes that...

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Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. University of California Press, 1992.