Cooke, Cassandra. Battleridge. C. Cawthorn, 1799, 2 vols.
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Characters | Cassandra Cooke | The novel opens [t]owards the end of Oliver Cromwell
's usurpation, Cooke, Cassandra. Battleridge. C. Cawthorn, 1799, 2 vols. 1: 1 |
Cultural formation | Anna Trapnel | AT
joined the Fifth Monarchist
congregation at Allhallows the Great in Thames Street, London. Trapnel, Anna. “Introduction”. The Cry of a Stone, edited by Hilary Hinds, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2000, p. xiii - xlvii. xxvii |
Cultural formation | Anna Trapnel | She experienced a spiritual awakening after hearing a sermon by Hugh Peter
when she was about nineteen, then in 1650 joined the Baptist
congregation of John Simpson
. Later she moved to the sect of... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Avery | Born into the English middling ranks, she followed her father in having a turbulent history of denominational allegiance. He went from Anglicanism to heterodox views and millenarianism. She went from membership of the Established Church |
Cultural formation | John Bunyan | JB
's spiritual struggle dated back to his unregenerate teens. Under the influence of his first wife he began attending the establishedchurch
and developed exaggerated reverence for its priests, Bunyan, John. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners. George Larkin, 1666. 5 |
Cultural formation | Mary Cary | Her political and religious position was radical. She was a Fifth Monarchist
, who looked forward with confidence to the conversion of the Jews and the Second Coming of Christ. |
politics | Margaret Fell | This approach to the newly-restored monarch was a vital tactical move for the Quakers, who had been persecuted in the last years of the Interregnum. George Fox
was still in prison; MF
went to London... |
Author summary | Anna Trapnel | AT
was a mid-seventeenth-century prophetic writer who published six tracts having strong sectarian and political import: expressing and even shaping the views of her Fifth Monarchist
sect. Some of her printed works were taken down... |
Textual Features | Anna Trapnel | In briefly describing the twelve-day prophetic trance and fast into which she fell into at the trial of the Fifth MonarchistVavasor Powell
, AT
offers a precis or abstract of her Cry of a... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Avery | EA
makes no reference here to her former publication, although she covers much of the same ground. She relates how shaken she was by the personal crisis that followed the deaths of her children, her... |
Textual Production | Anna Trapnel | Four tracts by AT
were published, probably by her Fifth Monarchist
co-religionists; together they provide a detailed account of a year crammed with politico-religious activism. Graham, Elspeth et al., editors. Her Own Life. Routledge, 1989. 71 |
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