Heresy Trials and English Women Writers, 1400-1670

This book charts the emergence of women''s writing from the procedures of heresy trials and recovers a tradition of women''s trial narratives from the late Middle Ages to the seventeenth century. Analyzing the interrogations of Margery Kempe, Anne Askew, Marian Protestant women, Margaret Clitherow and Quakers Katherine Evans and Sarah Cheevers, the book examines the complex dynamics of women''s wr...