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Abraham Cowley
Anabaptist
Anglican
Anna Trapnel
Anne Wentworth
Antinomian
Author_Naomi Baker
Autobiography
Baptist
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Church History
Church of England
Dissenting
Early Modern
Ecclesiastics
Elizabeth Attaway
Elizabeth Avery
Elizabeth Barton
Elizabeth Poole
English Civil War
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Family of Love
Feminism
Fifth Monarchists
George Fox
Hester Biddle
Jane Lead
John Lilburne
Katharine Evans
Levellers
Martin Luther
Mary Fisher
Millenarianism
Mysticism
Non-Conformists
Occult
Prayer
Preaching
Presbyterian
Prophecy
Protestantism
Puritanism
Quaker
Radical Religion
Ranters
Reformation
Revelation
Robert Browne
Rose Thurgood
Sarah Cheevers
Sarah Wight
Seekers
Seventeenth Century
Thomas Cranmer
Thomas More
Thomas Rainborough
Visionary
Product details
- ISBN 9781836391197
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 13 Oct 2025
- Publisher: Reaktion Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Voices of Thunder illuminates the stories and beliefs of more than a dozen seventeenth-century radical Protestant women, including a Colchester woman who feared that her four children would starve to death and a former maidservant from Yorkshire who was granted an audience with the sultan of the Ottoman Empire. Their belief in spiritual equality empowered them to resist the status quo, questioning the authority of those who sought to lord it over them. From mostly humble backgrounds, they found ways to make their voices heard, creating some of the earliest autobiographical accounts in English and allowing us a rare and precious glimpse of the lives and experiences of women in the early modern era.
Naomi Baker is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Manchester. She has published widely on early modern women’s writing, as well as early modern literature, drama and culture including Plain Ugly: The Unattractive Body in Early Modern Culture (2010).
