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Woman, as Patricia Crawford points out, was a key term in constructing ideas of the‘freeborn’, ‘subject’, and ‘man’. Despite the exclusion of actual wives, the rightsof the ‘people’ relative to the monarch were regularly derived from expanded orcircumscribed readings of the rights of wives in relation to their husbands’ authority.The Parliamentarian pamphleteer Henry Parker argued that ‘nothing can berightly extracted out of [husbands’ marital power], for the licensing of arbitraryrule in the State’. Ann Hughes points out that this ‘thinking with women’was a ‘potent means of confronting the painful dilemmas of male public life in the1640s and 1650s’. This chapter examines how thinking with women by womensympathetic to the monarch produced forceful and searching interrogations of thepower assigned to and exercised by the people in domestic and public space in thelate 1640s. It looks at three women of different rank, religion and political standing, Elizabeth Poole. Mary Pope and Hester Pulter to understand how women thought 'with women' to evaluate the emergence of the 'people' as an authoritative political community.
Author(s): Connolly R
Editor(s): Andrew Hadfield and Paul Hammond
Publication type: Book Chapter
Publication status: Published
Book Title: Words at War: The Contested Language of the English Civil War
Year: 2024
Volume: 261
Pages: 208-220
Print publication date: 29/02/2024
Acceptance date: 31/03/2023
Series Title: Proceedings of the British Academy
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Place Published: Oxford
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Library holdings: Search Newcastle University Library for this item
ISBN: 9780197267622
