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| 1622 | The Equality of Men and Women by Marie de Gournay first printed. |
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| 1625 | Lady Elinor Davies of Ireland became a prophet. Despite arrest, institutionalization she continued to give prophecies involving political events to the end of her life. (Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. p. 15). |
| 1626 | The Ladies' Grievance by Marie de Gournay printed |
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| 1631 | Lady Castlehaven took her husband to court for marital rape. Her husband had not only raped her, but held her down while the butler and stablehand raped her. The court found in her favor, having her husband beheaded. (Uppity Women of the Medieval Times by Vicki Leon. MJF Books, New York. 1997.) |
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| 1635 | Marie de Gournay's work appears in Parnasse Royal. Lady Eleanor Davies declared herself Primate at Lichfield. |
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| 1637 | John Bramhall complained of "Anababtisticall prophetesses" to the Archbishop of Canterbury. (Chilote, Paul Wesley. John Wesley and the Women Preachers of Early Methodism. 1991.) |
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| 1643 | Goody Armitage obtains permission from General Court of Massachusetts to open an inn. (Read, Phyllis J. and Bernard L. Witlieb 1992. The Book of Women's Firsts. New York: Random House. p. 24) |
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| 1645 | Samuel Torshell wrote The Woman's Glorie, which proclaimed, "The soul knows no difference of sex" (Chilote, Paul Wesley. John Wesley and the Women Preachers of Early Methodism. 1991.) |
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| 1648 | Margeret Brent of Maryland seeks the right to vote as both a landowner and a landowner's attorney. While denying her the right to vote as a landowner, the state does grant her the right to vote as another landowner's attorney. (Read, Phyllis J. and Bernard L. Witlieb 1992. The Book of Women's Firsts. New York: Random House. p. 67) Elizabeth Hooten began publishing Quaker tracts (Chilote, Paul Wesley. John Wesley and the Women Preachers of Early Methodism. 1991.) She was imprisoned in the same year. |
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| 1652 | Margaret Fell joined the Society of Friends. She would become one of the most vocal and eloquent proponents of women's ministry and equality. (Hyatt, Susan. In the Spirit We're Equal. Dallas: Hyatt Press. 1998.) |
| 1653 | A woman preached at Somerset House (Chilote, Paul Wesley. John Wesley and the Women Preachers of Early Methodism. 1991.) John Rogers wrote Ohel or Beth-shemesh. He celebrated the place of women in the church. |
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| 1656 | George Fox wrote The Woman Learning in Silence. He asked whether Christ in one believer was different from Christ in another based on gender. |
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| 1666 | Margaret Fell wrote Women's Speaking Justified, a Scripture based treatise on women. |
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| 1674 | George Keith published "Woman Preacher of Samaria; Better Qualified Preacher, and more Sufficiently Qualified to Preach than any of the Men-Preaches of the Man-made-Ministry in these three Nations." (Excerpts) |
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| 1694 | Mary Astell wrote A Serious Proposal to Ladies. |
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| 1698 | The newly founded First Baptist Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania allowed women to vote in congregational matters (until 1761) ("'On the Same Basis as the Men': The Campaign to Reinstate Women as Messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention, 1885-1918," J. Michael Raley, Journal of Southern Religion.) |
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