Flesh and spirit : an anthology of seventeenth-century women's writing / edited by Rachel Adcock, Sara Read and Anna Ziomek.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 12, 2016).

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Flesh and Spirit: An anthology of seventeenth-century women's writing ; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Introduction; The dialogue between flesh and spirit; Sin and childbirth; Signs of the times; Conversion and cure; Advising on body and spirit: women's writing; Note on the presentation of the texts; Part I: Exemplary conversion narratives; 1. Lady Mary Carey; Meditations and poetry (1647-57); 2. Elizabeth Major; Honey on the Rod: Or a Comfortable Contemplation for One in Affliction; with Sundry4 Poems on Several Subjects (1656).

Sin and Mercy Briefly Discovered: Or, The Veil Taken a Little from Before Both. Together with the Author's Accusation, Confession, and Belief. With Death's Progress. And a Particular Application of the Book of Jona[h']s (1656)713. Gertrude More; The Holy Practises of a Devine Lover or the Sainctly Ideots Devotions (1657); The Spiritual Exercises of the Most Vertuous and Religious D. Gertrude More of the Holy Order of S. Bennet and English Congregation of our Ladies of Comfort in Cambray (1658); Part II: Advising on body and spirit; 4. Elizabeth Clinton, Countess of Lincoln.

The Countesse of Lincolnes Nurserie (1622)5. Brilliana, Lady Harley; The commonplace book of Brilliana Conway (1622); Letters (1625-43); 6. 'Eliza'; Eliza's Babes: Or the Virgins-Offering (1652); 7. An anonymous gentlewoman; Conversion Exemplified; In the Instance of a Gracious Gentlewoman Now in Glory (1663); Part III: Conversion and cure; 8. Lady Elizabeth Delaval; Meditations and prayers (1663-71); 9. Katherine Sutton; A Christian Womans Experiences of the Glorious Working of Gods Free Grace (1663); 10. Hannah Allen.

A Narrative of God's Gracious Dealings withthat Choice Christian Mrs. Hannah Allen(Afterwards Married to Mr. Hatt), Reciting thegreat Advantages the Devil made of her deepMelancholy, and the Triumphant Victories, Rich and Sovereign Graces, God gave her overall his Stratagems and Devices (1683)Bibliography; Index of biblical allusions; General index.

Ten little-known and under-studied works by seventeenth-century women (edited from manuscript and print) that explore the relationship between spiritual and physical health in the period.

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