Prophetic writings of Lady Eleanor Davies / edited by Esther S. Cope.

Eleanor Davies (1590-1652) was one of the most prolific women writing in early seventeenth-century England. This volume includes thirty-eight of the sixty-some prophetic tracts that she published. Inspired to prophecy by a visionary experience in 1625, the year of Charles I's accession to the t...

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Main Author: Douglas, Eleanor, Lady, -1652
Other Authors: Cope, Esther S.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
Series:Women writers in English 1350-1850.
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; List of Abbreviations of Titles; Prophetic Writings; A Warning to the Dragon and all his Angels; Woe to the House; Given to the Elector Prince Charles of the Rhyne; Bathe Daughter of BabyLondon; Spirituall Antheme: Elea. Tuichet; The Lady Eleanor Her Appeal to the High Court of Parliament; To the most honorable the High Court of Parliament and Samsons Legacie; The Star to the Wise; From the Lady Eleanor, Her Blessing; A Prayer or Petition for Peace; As Not Unknowne. This Petition or Prophesie; Great Brittains Visitation.