Elizabeth Stirredge

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ES was one of the best-known Quaker pamphleteers and religious autobiographers of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century. She was also known in her own localities as an outstanding preacher.

Milestones

1634

Elizabeth Tayler or Taylor (later ES ) was born at Thornbury in Gloucestershire.
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.

November 1670

ES personally placed in the king 's hands a one-paragraph testimony beginning This is unto thee, O King. It was apparently her first venture into writing for print.
The ODNB places this event in January of this year. The text is not known to survive. It is not the same as This is to thee O King and thy Council (by Samuel Fisher and thirteen others, 1660).
Stirredge, Elizabeth. Strength in Weakness Manifest. J. Sowle.
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13 February 1692

ES finished writing for her children the account of her life which was published after her death as Strength in Weakness Manifest.
ES wrote 13-2-1692; see above for reasons why she probably was not one of those who still reckoned the new year as beginning from 25 March.
Stirredge, Elizabeth. Strength in Weakness Manifest. J. Sowle.
176

Probably 7 November 1706

ES , now a widow, died at Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire.
The testimonies in her posthumous autobiography say she died in the eleventh month. There is reason to believe that ES herself had used New Style, which must be what is used here.
Stirredge, Elizabeth. Strength in Weakness Manifest. J. Sowle.
prelims

1711

ES 's autobiography, Strength in Weakness Manifest, was posthumously published by the Quaker printer Tace Sowle .
Bracken, James K., and Joel Silver, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 170. Gale Research.
170: 256

Biography

Birth and Childhood

1634

Elizabeth Tayler or Taylor (later ES ) was born at Thornbury in Gloucestershire.
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.