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Literature, Politics and Law in Renaissance EnglandJohn Selden among the Quakers: Antifeminism and the Seventeenth-Century Tithes Controversy

Literature, Politics and Law in Renaissance England: John Selden among the Quakers: Antifeminism... [20 July 1659 witnessed a landmark event in the history of early modern women’s writing when two nameless women presented a massive, collectively written text to the House of Commons. Despite the fact that the Commons would not accept the document, it appeared in print later that year as a 72-page pamphlet published by Mary Westwood entitled These Several Papers Was sent to the Parliament The twentieth day of the fifth Moneth 1659 Being Above seven thousand of the Names of the Handmaids and Daughters of the Lord. The text bearing this unwieldy, ungrammatical title was actually a densely printed collection of petitions by different groups of Quaker women from various parts of the country collated together as a single female response to ‘the oppression of Tithes, in the names of many more of the said Handmaids and Daughters of the Lord, who witness against the oppression of Tithes’.1 The tenor of These Several Papers differs from petition to petition but all are characterized by a shared concern to expose the material depredations and economic hardships (including imprisonment and property distraint) that Quaker women suffered as a result of the institution of tithe payment.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Literature, Politics and Law in Renaissance EnglandJohn Selden among the Quakers: Antifeminism and the Seventeenth-Century Tithes Controversy

Part of the Language, Discourse, Society Book Series
Editors: Sheen, Erica; Hutson, Lorna
Nevitt, Marcus
Literature, Politics and Law in Renaissance England — Nov 16, 2015
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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2005
ISBN
978-1-349-43051-2
Pages
189 –208
DOI
10.1057/9780230597662_9
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Abstract

[20 July 1659 witnessed a landmark event in the history of early modern women’s writing when two nameless women presented a massive, collectively written text to the House of Commons. Despite the fact that the Commons would not accept the document, it appeared in print later that year as a 72-page pamphlet published by Mary Westwood entitled These Several Papers Was sent to the Parliament The twentieth day of the fifth Moneth 1659 Being Above seven thousand of the Names of the Handmaids and Daughters of the Lord. The text bearing this unwieldy, ungrammatical title was actually a densely printed collection of petitions by different groups of Quaker women from various parts of the country collated together as a single female response to ‘the oppression of Tithes, in the names of many more of the said Handmaids and Daughters of the Lord, who witness against the oppression of Tithes’.1 The tenor of These Several Papers differs from petition to petition but all are characterized by a shared concern to expose the material depredations and economic hardships (including imprisonment and property distraint) that Quaker women suffered as a result of the institution of tithe payment.]

Published: Nov 16, 2015

Keywords: Dinner Table; Woman Writer; Table Talk; Property Distraint; Forced Maintenance

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