Katharine Gillespie teaches at Miami University and is a pioneer in studies of seventeenth-century English women writers who participated in religious and political dissent from the crown and established church. Gillespie's research demonstrates the need to work across such disciplines as literature, religion, economics, and political philosophy in order to fully take the measure of early modern women writers' contributions to social movements and intellectual histories.

'… Gillespie has provided an invaluable resource not just for ongoing debates about gender and the legacy of the English civil wars, but also for some of our deepest and most important questions about political change.' Erin Murphy, Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal

• Introduction; 1. Eleanor Davies, fifth monarchism, and the early liberal critique of tyranny; 2. Brilliana Harley, neo-stoicism, and republican motherhood in the Civil Wars; 3. Isabella Twysden and Hobbesian skepticism in the Commonwealth; 4. Anne Bradstreet's humoralism in the New England; 5. Anne Venn and seekerism in the late English republic; 6. Lucy Hutchinson, hermeticism, and republicanism in the Restoration; Conclusion.

Katharine Gillespie teaches at Miami University and is a pioneer in studies of seventeenth-century English women writers who participated in religious and political dissent from the crown and established church. Gillespie's research demonstrates the need to work across such disciplines as literature, religion, economics, and political philosophy in order to fully take the measure of early modern women writers' contributions to social movements and intellectual histories.

'… Gillespie has provided an invaluable resource not just for ongoing debates about gender and the legacy of the English civil wars, but also for some of our deepest and most important questions about political change.' Erin Murphy, Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal

• Introduction; 1. Eleanor Davies, fifth monarchism, and the early liberal critique of tyranny; 2. Brilliana Harley, neo-stoicism, and republican motherhood in the Civil Wars; 3. Isabella Twysden and Hobbesian skepticism in the Commonwealth; 4. Anne Bradstreet's humoralism in the New England; 5. Anne Venn and seekerism in the late English republic; 6. Lucy Hutchinson, hermeticism, and republicanism in the Restoration; Conclusion.

Katharine Gillespie teaches at Miami University and is a pioneer in studies of seventeenth-century English women writers who participated in religious and political dissent from the crown and established church. Gillespie's research demonstrates the need to work across such disciplines as literature, religion, economics, and political philosophy in order to fully take the measure of early modern women writers' contributions to social movements and intellectual histories.

'… Gillespie has provided an invaluable resource not just for ongoing debates about gender and the legacy of the English civil wars, but also for some of our deepest and most important questions about political change.' Erin Murphy, Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal

• Introduction; 1. Eleanor Davies, fifth monarchism, and the early liberal critique of tyranny; 2. Brilliana Harley, neo-stoicism, and republican motherhood in the Civil Wars; 3. Isabella Twysden and Hobbesian skepticism in the Commonwealth; 4. Anne Bradstreet's humoralism in the New England; 5. Anne Venn and seekerism in the late English republic; 6. Lucy Hutchinson, hermeticism, and republicanism in the Restoration; Conclusion.