McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
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Philadelphian Society
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| death | Jane Lead | Richard Roach
became the leader of the Philadelphian Society
after her death. As time went by and women's equal participation in such movements became less usual, Roach laid increasing emphasis on gender equality. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Conway | AC
's work was of particular interest to the Philadelphian Society
associated with Jane Lead
. It is now believed to have influenced Leibnitz
(who owned and annotated a copy of her treatise), and through... |
| Literary responses | Mary Astell | Theosophical Transactions, the journal of Jane Lead
's Philadelphian Society
, warmly praised MA
's work and published extracts from it. Damaris Masham
, however (who was herself guessed by some to be the... |
| Literary responses | Jane Lead | The Tatler ridiculed JL
's Philadelphian Society
and its mixed-sex membership in number 257, which targets the sects in general. Sperle, Joanne Magnani. God’s Healing Angel: A Biography of Jane Lead. Kent State University, 1985. 239 |
| Occupation | Jane Lead | JL
's Philadelphian Society
, finding that publication was making them known, embarked on a programme of deliberate expansion and publicising. McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998. 172 |
| Occupation | Jane Lead | JL
now became the spiritual leader of an illegal nonconformist sect. qtd. in McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998. 171 |
| Publishing | Jane Lead | The first five numbers appeared of Theosophical Transactions, the Philadelphian Society
's journal: not a work of JL
's but a journal intimately connected with her writings. McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998. 173 Sperle, Joanne Magnani. God’s Healing Angel: A Biography of Jane Lead. Kent State University, 1985. 267 |
| Reception | Jane Lead | Richard Roach
's verse preface to the first volume called JL
a divine heroine or celestial Amazon. McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998. 198 |
| Textual Features | Jane Lead | She said she wrote for all Ranks, Orders, and Degrees of Persons, from the highest to the lowest. Lead, Jane. A Fountain of Gardens. Printed and are to be sold by the book-sellers of London and Westminster, 1697–1701, 4 vols. 3: 1, A2r |
| Textual Production | Jane Lead | Published by the Philadelphian Society
and financed by an unnamed donor, it appeared in three volumes (the second following the same year, the last in two parts, published in 1700 and 1701), all sharing the... |
| Textual Production | Jane Lead | The Philadelphian Society
valued women's spiritual experience and visions very highly. Its publications included that of JL
's diary, as A Fountain of Gardens. |
| Textual Production | Jane Lead | JL
's three volumes of her Message to the Philadelphian Society were published. Sperle, Joanne Magnani. God’s Healing Angel: A Biography of Jane Lead. Kent State University, 1985. 267 |
Timeline
Probably February or March 1701: Sectarian religious writer Mary Pennyman...
Women writers item
Probably February or March 1701
Sectarian religious writer Mary Pennyman
having died on 14 January,
Pennyman, Mary. Some of the Letters and Papers. Editor Pennyman, John, 1701.
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