Katharine Gillespie is Assistant Professor of seventeenth-century transatlantic and early modern women's literature at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. She has published articles in Genders, Bunyan Studies, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, and Symbiosis.

Review of the hardback: 'Still, it is a scholarly and passionate intervention in a debate which runs high, especially in America …' The Times Literary Supplement

• Introduction: Sabrina versus the state; 1. 'Born of the Mother's seed': Liberalism, feminism, and religious separatism; 2. A hammer in her hand: Katherine Chidley and Anna Trapnel separate church from state; 3. Cure for a diseased head: divorce and contract in the prophesies of Elizabeth Poole; 4. The unquenchable smoking flax: Sarah Wight, Anne Wentworth, and the 'rise' of the sovereign individual; 5. Improving God's estate: preaching and the possessive economy in the writings of Mary Cary.

Katharine Gillespie is Assistant Professor of seventeenth-century transatlantic and early modern women's literature at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. She has published articles in Genders, Bunyan Studies, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, and Symbiosis.

Review of the hardback: 'Still, it is a scholarly and passionate intervention in a debate which runs high, especially in America …' The Times Literary Supplement

• Introduction: Sabrina versus the state; 1. 'Born of the Mother's seed': Liberalism, feminism, and religious separatism; 2. A hammer in her hand: Katherine Chidley and Anna Trapnel separate church from state; 3. Cure for a diseased head: divorce and contract in the prophesies of Elizabeth Poole; 4. The unquenchable smoking flax: Sarah Wight, Anne Wentworth, and the 'rise' of the sovereign individual; 5. Improving God's estate: preaching and the possessive economy in the writings of Mary Cary.

Katharine Gillespie is Assistant Professor of seventeenth-century transatlantic and early modern women's literature at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. She has published articles in Genders, Bunyan Studies, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, and Symbiosis.

Review of the hardback: 'Still, it is a scholarly and passionate intervention in a debate which runs high, especially in America …' The Times Literary Supplement

• Introduction: Sabrina versus the state; 1. 'Born of the Mother's seed': Liberalism, feminism, and religious separatism; 2. A hammer in her hand: Katherine Chidley and Anna Trapnel separate church from state; 3. Cure for a diseased head: divorce and contract in the prophesies of Elizabeth Poole; 4. The unquenchable smoking flax: Sarah Wight, Anne Wentworth, and the 'rise' of the sovereign individual; 5. Improving God's estate: preaching and the possessive economy in the writings of Mary Cary.