Joan Vokins

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Standard Name: Vokins, Joan
Birth Name: Joan Bunce
Married Name: Joan Vokins
JV , a late-seventeenth-century Quaker preacher, is best known for her autobiography; she also left letters addressed to individuals and epistles officially addressed to Quaker communities.
Title-page of Joan Vokins's book, "God's Mighty Power Magnified: As Manifested and Revealed in his Faithful Handmaid Joan Vokins", 1691: a new edition published at Cockermouth in Cumbria, 1871. It bears the signature of a former owner.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Hooton
Her associates among the Society of Friends included the eminent, like George Fox , and the obscure, like Joan Brooksop .
Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. University of California Press.
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Joan Vokins , who was thirty years younger, sent Hooton her dear love...
Intertextuality and Influence Caryl Churchill
The play takes place in the period immediately following Charles I 's defeat by Cromwell , when for a short time . . . anything seemed possible.
Churchill, Caryl. Light Shining in Buckinghamshire. Pluto Press.
prelims
Critics have recognised Churchill's debt to Christopher Hill

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Texts

Vokins, Joan. A Loving Advertisement. 1671.
Vokins, Joan. God’s Mighty Power Magnified. Editor Sansom, Oliver, Thomas Northcott, 1691.