John Lilburne

Standard Name: Lilburne, John

Connections

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Intertextuality and Influence Eva Figes
EF 's protagonist covers many topics: she speaks of her female experience (deaths of children in successive generations, anxiety for survivors, living with gendered contempt), her economic experience (the poverty of weavers, like her husband...
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...
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.
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.
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.
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, No. 2, 1998, pp. 213-33.
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Textual Production Katherine Chidley
KC probably led the deputation of twelve who presented to parliament a petition signed by 6,000 women calling for an end to Lilburne 's trial.
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.
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, 1997.
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Timeline

8 February 1647: Elizabeth Lilburne was arrested for circulating...

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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).
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
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October 1647: Followers of John Lilburne, who had proclaimed...

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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.
Frank, Joseph. The Levellers: A History of the Writings of Three Seventeenth-Century Social Democrats, John Lilburne, Richard Overton, William Walwyn. Harvard University Press, 1955.
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Moore, Roderick. The Levellers: A Chronology and Bibliography, 1994. http://www.diggers.org/diggers/levellers.htm.
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, 1998, pp. 213-33.
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23 April 1649: London women brought the Petition of divers...

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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 .
Frank, Joseph. The Levellers: A History of the Writings of Three Seventeenth-Century Social Democrats, John Lilburne, Richard Overton, William Walwyn. Harvard University Press, 1955.
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Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press, 1992.
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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, 1998, pp. 213-33.
225 and n45
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1 May 1649: Following the imprisonment of John Lilburne...

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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.
Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press, 1992.
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