Thomas Edwards

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Standard Name: Edwards, Thomas,, 1599 - 1648

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Damaris Masham
DM 's friends also included Lady Ranelagh , whose ODNB entry calls her the leading woman intellectual of her generation,
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Jones, Katherine, Viscountess Ranelagh
and who provides a rare trace of Masham's mostly invisible...
Literary responses Katherine Chidley
To Edwards the fact of being answered by a woman was an insult: the ODNB quotes the remark that it was a spetting in his face.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Edwards
In his reply he calls her an...
Reception Katherine Chidley
It was largely because women of the Independent and Separatist sects were free to teach, preach; and prophesy, that such virulent hostility towards them arose. Thomas Edwards attacked them in early 1641 in Reasons against...
Textual Features Elizabeth Elstob
EE 's preliminary list of names suggests considerable research work: it includes several ancient or Anglo-Saxon women as well as Mary Astell , Anne Bacon , Katherine Chidley (as the pamphlet antagonist of Thomas Edwards
Textual Production Katherine Chidley
KC published her first attack on Thomas Edwards : The Justification of the Independant Churches of Christ.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
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OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Katherine Chidley
KC published with her name A New-Yeares-Gift; or, A Brief Exhortation to Mr Thomas Edwards, another vigorous attack (in answer to his Antapologia, 1644), urging him to abandon his old sins with the old year.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

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By 6 June 1641: Thomas Edwards inveighed against the women...

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Thomas Edwards inveighed against the women preachers of the dissenting sects in Reasons against the Independent Government of Particular Congregations.
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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