I left the North I travelled South I found a tiny house …

Just so sick of male violence against women. That’s it.

It’s brilliant to get my hands on this beauty at last! Proud to have chapter on ugliness in this great collection @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social #beauty #earlymodern #gender #shakespeare

Blackbird’s nest in garden - in just over 2 weeks from eggs to little birds

The blackbirds are hatching!

In December 1680 there was a harmony of harping, and this has improved my day immeasurably

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Thrilled to find this in my favourite bookshop @blackwelloxford.bsky.social

“Assumptions about the intrinsically ‘backward’ character of premodern religion not only leave the women of the past opaque to us but make the oppressions of our own time harder to see, too.” —an interview with Erin Maglaque

April ye 2nd

Being reviewed by Stefan Collini is not for the faint-hearted, but I can hardly complain about this one drb.ie/article/havi...

For the last day of #womenshistorymonth, a reminder that literary history, like other forms of history, has blind spots. Women - often “ordinary” women - wrote some of the most innovative works of the 17th century, including prophecies and visionary forms of prose. They’re worth reading! 📚

Gorgeous flourishes in a woman’s spiritual diary (late 17th century) - the letters seem to take off and dance across the page #earlymodern

In an altogether excellent list of imp names, Griezzell Greedigutt is a particular standout Image from Hopkins, “The Discovery of Witches”, 1647 #earlymodern

This image is on the front of my book! How has it found its way onto a card? 👀

Such an important point

A great interview with @erinmaglaque.bsky.social where she draws attention to the incredible Anne Wentworth (one of the stars of Voices of Thunder)

A great interview with @erinmaglaque.bsky.social where she draws attention to the incredible Anne Wentworth (one of the stars of Voices of Thunder)

The Church of England may at last be recognising a female leader but it has taken far too long to do so - women were preaching as far back as the 1640s - and were vilified in the strongest terms within the established church #earlymodern

“Radical spiritual writing—prophecies, autobiographies, spiritual accounts—was a genre in which women [in the 17th-century] flourished: they wrote about childbirth, about raising and feeding children, about abusive marriages.” —@erinmaglaque.bsky.social

As the Church of England gets ready to install a female Archbishop of Canterbury, I’m thinking of all the women - going back 400 years and more - who were excluded, mocked and hounded for daring to preach. As this tract from 1641 shows, they were vilified as Satanic (as were “unqualified” men, too)

“When the Quaker women stood doused in blood at St. Paul’s, they made a sensational, ominous scene; but then, seventeenth-century Londoners were used to that.” — @erinmaglaque.bsky.social

Richard Roach, writing in 1725 about the great female authors and spiritual leaders of his era. He assumed that when the history books were written they would all be put on the public stage “with applause and admiration”. 300 yrs later and we’re only just learning their names #earlymodern

“Radical spiritual writing—prophecies, autobiographies, spiritual accounts—was a genre in which women [in the 17th-century] flourished: they wrote about childbirth, about raising and feeding children, about abusive marriages.” —@erinmaglaque.bsky.social

17th-century version of clickbait?! Opening page of Ann Bathurst’s spiritual diary, late C17th #earlymodern

“When the Quaker women stood doused in blood at St. Paul’s, they made a sensational, ominous scene; but then, seventeenth-century Londoners were used to that.” — @erinmaglaque.bsky.social

Delighted with this review of Voices of Thunder in The New York Review of Books

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I write for ease & for strengthening of my memory, & it may be for future ages, when the law of love will be more naturalized among you ~ Ann Bathurst, 1694 I get goosebumps when C17th women directly address future readers! They hoped the future would be more open to them than was their present

The mystery is above the history.” Ann Bathurst, giving the best ever definition of mysticism

The difference between engagement on X and BlueSky is huge! The pic on the left is from X and on the right is from BlueSky (I have more than twice as many followers on BlueSky). This is not a one-off! Is it just me or is it hard to get engagement on this platform?

“It would seem grossly improbable that a billionaire—rich from birth and repeatedly bankrupt yet still a billionaire—could lead a movement of angry ‘populism.’ But here we are.” —Marilynne Robinson

I love that @nybooks.com used this picture from my book in their review by @erinmaglaque.bsky.social - it’s the biblical prophet Hannah, looking truly terrifying

A quick reminder that we'll be joined by Joe Davidson tomorrow for a special talk hosted by the EACW Radical Formations and Cultural Materialisms research group. We'd love to see you there!

Women should have a share in “directing the destinies of nations and governing the world, which is composed of females as well as males” ~ Shaker document, early 19th century

Happy International Women’s Day - today I’m celebrating Rose Thurgood, a poor woman with a “hard and hungry” stomach who supported her four children alone after being abandoned by her husband - and found the inspiration and courage to write one of the earliest English autobiographies in the 1630s

Ann Lee’s marriage certificate, marked by her with an X. Held in Chetham’s Library, Manchester, it’s the only surviving hand-written mark of the Shaker leader #thetestamentofannlee #shakers #manchester

I loved #thetestamentofannlee - it’s immersive and celebratory and captures the spirit of radical religion. My only gripe is that Shaker celibacy is presented as Ann Lee’s personal response to trauma rather than a theological choice - this is the one element of condescension, a shame! 1/2

Voices will always resonate more loudly than “men’s great cannons” - the words of Anna Trapnel, which gave me the title of my book and remain truer than ever

A fitting pick for International Women's Day also! #IWD

A well-deserved, excellent review by @erinmaglaque.bsky.social in @nybooks.com of @drnaomibaker.bsky.social's 'Voices of Thunder: Radical Religious Women of the Seventeenth Century', which I edited for @reaktionbooks.bsky.social. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Am absolutely thrilled with this incredible review of my book in the New York Review of Books! Thank you @erinmaglaque.bsky.social for capturing so brilliantly the inspiring essence of the radical women in Voices of Thunder @nybooks.com

Manifestly worth making time to visit the Glass Corridor Gallery on UoM campus for this exhibition over the next few weeks ✨ Really excellent!

It’s #worldbookday and so here’s a book I wrote! It introduces a dozen radical 17th women who have been ignored by history books for far too long ✍️📚#voicesofthunder #newbook

Thank you @katherineharvey.bsky.social for this brilliant review of Voices of Thunder!

Fennell’s #wutheringheights has far too many scenes indoors and misses the point that the moors are not only a crucial setting in the novel but its most important character. Sylvia Plath gets it better in her poem “Wuthering Heights”

It’s Women’s History Month, with the theme “leading the change”, and I want to celebrate all the unsung women who innovated, resisted and risked their lives to pave the way for the freedoms we cherish today. My book introduces 12 of these women from the C17th but there many more stories to be told

I don’t share the same view of radical religion as this blog, but I love the comment that my book has “rescued a significant number of radical women of the seventeenth century from what E.P. Thompson once called the “enormous condescension of posterity #voicesofthunder atrumpetofsedition.org/blog/

#emilybrontë, the most monstrously misrepresented of all our great writers. Her writing shattered the mould and we have yet to scratch the surface #wutheringheights #emilybronte

Back in the time when the sun was pink