Probably in the same year, she attended the bedside of a teenage Baptist, Sarah Wight
, who was having the same kind of physical-spiritual crisis that AT
herself experienced, and who also fell into a...
Friends, Associates
Anna Trapnel
Visitors to AT
during her Whitehall trance included Colonel William Sydenham
, Hanserd Knollys
(a Particular Baptist who later begged Cromwell not to accept the crown), and several ladies from prominent families.
Trapnel, Anna. Strange and Wonderful Newes from White-Hall. R. Sale, 1654.
4
Two of...
Timeline
Spring-summer 1647: A London Baptist girl in her teens, Sarah...
Women writers item
Spring-summer 1647
A LondonBaptist
girl in her teens, Sarah Wight
, fell into a months-long trance, the climax of four years of spiritual turmoil about which she later published a pamphlet.
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.
20 October 1656: A Wonderful Pleasant and Profitable Letter...
Women writers item
20 October 1656
A Wonderful Pleasant and Profitable Letter by the prophet Sarah Wight
was anonymously published without her consent.
Uszkalo, Kirsten, and Isobel Grundy. Email about Sarah Wight to Isobel Grundy. 15 July 2000.
Scott-Luckens, Carola. “Propaganda or Marks of Grace? The Impact of the Reported Ordeals of Sarah Wight in Revolutionary London, 1647-52”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
9
, No. 2, 2002, pp. 215-32.
216-17, 218 and n10, 222-3
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
