Women's Reading Practices in Seventeenth-Century England
"Margaret Fell's "Women's Speaking Justified
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16617440 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jane Donawerth (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 985-1005 |
| Publication date | 2006-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sixteenth Century Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0361-0160 • E-ISSN: 2326-0726 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/20478125 |
| OpenAlex | W114246088 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 2 |
In Women’s Speaking Justified (1666) and other pamphlets, Margaret Fell quotes the King James Version of the Bible, but inaccurately. The mistakes are variants resulting from oral transmission: Fell has memorized much of the Bible. This discovery reinforces the views that speech, manuscript, and print were complementary rather than opposing modes in early modern England and that Quaker culture was dependent on memorizing. Fell’s quotations also show that she read comparatively, correcting the KJV against other translations, and that she seems to have memorized by topics rather than verse by verse. Fell’s reading practice thus demonstrates that humanist reading methods migrated from men with education in multiple languages to women with vernacular education but multiple translations in seventeenth-century England. Moreover, Fell provides a Quaker theory of reading: reading is not transporting outer knowledge to inner storage, but enriching outer translation by inner Word, creating a virtual Bible of the spirit
Cartography · Fell · Geography · Political science · Reading (process · Sociology · Gender Studies · History · Law · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2020 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |