QMUL CRLE seminar – Alison Searle – ‘Spirit and Body in C17 English Nonconformist Women’s Writing’

All are welcome to the inaugural seminar of the Centre for Religion and Literature in English at Queen Mary University of London:
Time: Wednesday 1 June 2016, 5.15-6.45pm
Place: Lock-Keeper’s Cottage Graduate Centre, Westfield Way, Queen Mary University of London, E1 4NS

Dr Alison Searle (Sydney), ‘Spirit and Body in Seventeenth-Century English Nonconformist Women’s Writing’

This paper will examine the spiritual and corporeal experience of nonconformist women in seventeenth-century England as recorded in their diaries, letters, biographies and prophecies, focusing specifically on the role attributed to the Holy Spirit. Subjects will include Briget Cooke, Mary Franklin and Anne Wentworth amongst others.


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