Agnes Beaumont
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Standard Name: Beaumont, Agnes
Birth Name: Agnes Beaumont
left a single text, an autobiographical account of her struggles with her father over her right to choose her own religious sect and of the accusations levelled against her after his sudden death, because their quarrel was known. Blending the record of spiritual life with dramatic outside events is not unusual in the writings from the radical sects: the unusual element here is that the persecutor is
's father, representing family authority rather than church or state authority.
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