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.
Levellers
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Katherine Chidley | KC
may have been one of the Leveller
women who petitioned Parliament
for the release of John Lilburne
; she may also have been the chief writer of the petition. Gillespie, Katharine. “A Hammer in Her Hand: The Separation of Church from State and the Early Feminist Writings of Katherine Chidley”. Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Vol. 17 , No. 2, pp. 213-33. 225 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Katherine Chidley | Samuel Chidley
grew up to be active among the Levellers
, both in person and in print. He also became his mother's publishing colleague. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Samuel Chidley |
Textual Production | Katherine Chidley | With other Leveller
women, KC
repeatedly petitioned parliament on issues of trade, the colonial war in Ireland (which they opposed), and the imprisonment of the husbands of many of them. Gillespie, Katharine. “A Hammer in Her Hand: The Separation of Church from State and the Early Feminist Writings of Katherine Chidley”. Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Vol. 17 , No. 2, pp. 213-33. 214 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Caryl Churchill | The play takes place in the period immediately following Charles I
's defeat by Cromwell
, when for a short time . . . anything seemed possible. Churchill, Caryl. Light Shining in Buckinghamshire. Pluto Press. prelims |
politics | Lady Eleanor Douglas | LED
crossed swords with Gerrard Winstanley
, leader of the Levellers
: she had dismissed him from her employ after a dispute about pay for his men. Cope, Esther S. Handmaid of the Holy Spirit: Dame Eleanor Davies, Never Soe Mad a Ladie. University of Michigan Press. 155 Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial. 531 |
Friends, Associates | Lady Eleanor Douglas | This autumn she took on Gerrard Winstanley
and impoverished members of the political grouping of Levellers
to work on her land. Winstanley apparently became her estate steward. Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial. 528-9 |
politics | Margaret Fell | In May 1657 she was approached for advice and help by the LevellersJohn Lilburne
. According to one story Lilburne became a Quaker before he died later that year; he was certainly attracted to... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Catharine Macaulay | |
Friends, Associates | Damaris Masham | DM
's friends also included Lady Ranelagh
, whose ODNB entry calls her the leading woman intellectual of her generation, Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Jones, Katherine, Viscountess Ranelagh |
Textual Production | Naomi Mitchison | Sea-Green Ribbons began as a play about the life of John Lilburne
, the Leveller
leader, but shifted in both genre and central subject-matter. Calder, Jenni. The Nine Lives of Naomi Mitchison. Virago. 287 |
Timeline
6 January 1647: Mary Overton, arrested with her brother-in-law...
National or international item
6 January 1647
Mary Overton
, arrested with her brother-in-law Thomas
as they worked on a scandalous pamphlet, was brought before the House of Lords
, pregnant and with her six-month-old baby in her arms.
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial.
479
8 February 1647: Elizabeth Lilburne was arrested for circulating...
National or international item
8 February 1647
Elizabeth Lilburne
was arrested for circulating pamphlets by her husband, John Lilburne
, a leader of the group later called Levellers
(who published nearly forty such works between spring 1640 and late September 1649).
From 9 September 1647: The Putney Debates began with weekly meetings...
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From 9 September 1647
The Putney Debates began with weekly meetings of the General Council of the New Model Army
in Putney church.
October 1647: Followers of John Lilburne, who had proclaimed...
National or international item
October 1647
Followers of John Lilburne
, who had proclaimed the sovereignty of the people, as opposed to that of the monarch, were for the first time nicknamed Levellers.
15 November 1647: After the Putney Debates the Levellers planned...
Writing climate item
15 November 1647
After the Putney Debates the Levellers
planned another meeting with the New Model Army
at Ware in Hertfordshire. Cromwell
, however, intervened.
23 April 1649: London women brought the Petition of divers...
Building item
23 April 1649
London women brought the Petition of divers wel-affected women before the House of Commons
demanding the release of John Lilburne
and other Levellers
.
1 May 1649: Following the imprisonment of John Lilburne...
National or international item
1 May 1649
Following the imprisonment of John Lilburne
and others, the Levellers
issued An Agreement of the Free People of England, which Catharine Macaulay
later judged their most important text.
5 May 1649: Women calling themselves female Leveller...
Women writers item
5 May 1649
Women calling themselves female Leveller
petitionersprotested to Parliament
about the continued imprisonment of their husbands: this action had been well prepared for.
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