Evans and Cheevers's<i>A Short Relation</i>in Context: Flesh, Spirit, and Authority in Quaker Prison Writings, 1650–1662

Gill, Catie

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“…A Short Relation thus belongs to the subgenre of "prison narratives," an autobiographical form thattogether with death-bed testimonies and conversion narratives-was particularly cultivated by Quaker women, more than in other dissenter religious groups. Unlike the conventional "captivity narrative," which normally presents a story of people captured by 36 "uncivilized" enemies, "prison narratives" imply a spiritual renewal (Gill 2009).…”

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This paper considers the persistence of the Renaissance pageant in modern and post-modern culture, both as a recurrent metaphor for history in general and as a feature of stage, cinematic and communal representations of early modern history in particular. After examining the status of public processions in Renaissance London as conscious revivals of the Roman triumph, indebted at the same time to aspects of the medieval mystery plays, the essay examines the English historical pageants of the Edwardian and inter-war years as themselves revivals of both Renaissance pageantry and aspects of the Shakespearean history play. It looks in particular at their emphasis on the Tudor monarchs and on the ethnic origins of Englishness, identifying the fading of the pageant as a genre in the post-war years with the collapse of certain ideas about English exceptionalism and historical continuity. KEYWORDS: Pageants, processions, Edwardian outdoor theatre, amateur historical drama, Tudor monarchy in popular culture.10 "The Song of Pickering" was published commercially by Novello and Sons of London, independently of the pageant's text, presumably in a further attempt to raise the profile of "Hill-guarded Pickering, / Queen of our Vale!" (Hudson 1910:55-6).11 More recent history could be left to Noel Coward, whose Cavalcade (1931), and This Happy Breed (1939) are essentially pageant-like chronicles of representative families instead of representative towns.

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“…A Short Relation thus belongs to the subgenre of "prison narratives," an autobiographical form thattogether with death-bed testimonies and conversion narratives-was particularly cultivated by Quaker women, more than in other dissenter religious groups. Unlike the conventional "captivity narrative," which normally presents a story of people captured by "uncivilized" enemies, "prison narratives" imply a spiritual renewal (Gill 2009).…”

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"I have written the things which I did hear, see, tasted and HANDLED": Selfhood and Voice in Katherine Evans’ and Sarah Cheevers’ A Short Relation of Their Sufferings (1662)

Paz

2010

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This article analyses the representation of selfhood in a major Quaker autobiography, A Short Relation (1662), written by Katharine Evans and Sarah Cheevers; the analysis will try to assess, through a detailed discussion of the voices in the text, the dynamic female selfhood that emerges from it and its main constitutive elements. Secondly, and with the help of Evans’ and Cheevers’ private correspondence, the article contextualises this notion of selfhood in the social space of early Quakerism in order to assess the extent to which it was informed by the Quaker emphasis on gender equality before God and women’s relationship to the divine. At the same time, this analysis invites us to regard A Short Relation as a major early modern autobiography that may be particularly challenging to present-day Gender Studies.

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Heresy Trials and English Women Writers, 1400–1670

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2012

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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 writing, preaching and authorship under religious persecution and censorship. Archival sources illuminate not only the literary choices women made, showing how they wrote to justify their teaching even when their authority was questioned, but also their complex relationship with male interrogators. Women's speech was paradoxically encouraged and constrained, and male editors preserved their writing while shaping it to their own interests. This book challenges conventional distinctions between historical and literary forms while identifying a new tradition of women's writing across Catholic, Protestant and Sectarian communities and the medieval/early modern divide.

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Evans and Cheevers'sA Short Relationin Context: Flesh, Spirit, and Authority in Quaker Prison Writings, 1650–1662

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"I have written the things which I did hear, see, tasted and HANDLED": Selfhood and Voice in Katherine Evans’ and Sarah Cheevers’ A Short Relation of Their Sufferings (1662)

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