Elizabeth Hooton

01 January 1600 - 01 February 1672

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 her lively rhetoric draws on gendered images of virgins, mothers, and whores.

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

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BirthName: Elizabeth Carrier
Married: Hooton
Indexed: Elizabeth Hooten
Bonnelyn Young Kunze and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry both spell EH 's name this way.

Milestones

Probably 1600

Elizabeth Carrier, who later as EH became one of the earliest Quaker preachers, was born.

Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

February 1672

EH died during her last missionary visit to Jamaica, of an illness which rendered her weak and unable to speak.

Various sources including the Feminist Companion mistakenly date her death two years earlier.

Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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

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Biography

Birth and Background

Probably 1600

Elizabeth Carrier, who later as EH became one of the earliest Quaker preachers, was born.

Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.