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The Passion of Anne Hutchinson: an extraordinary woman, the puritan patriarchs, and the world they made and lost <b>The Passion of Anne Hutchinson: an extraordinary woman, the puritan patriarchs, and the world they made and lost</b> , by Marilyn J. Westerkamp, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 2021, 368pp., £19.99, (hb), ISBN: 9780197506905 (2022)
Journal Article
Adcock, R. (2024). The Passion of Anne Hutchinson: an extraordinary woman, the puritan patriarchs, and the world they made and lost The Passion of Anne Hutchinson: an extraordinary woman, the puritan patriarchs, and the world they made and lost , by Marilyn J. Westerkamp, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 2021, 368pp., £19.99, (hb), ISBN: 9780197506905. Baptist Quarterly, 55(1), 32-33. https://doi.org/10.1080/0005576x.2022.2107348

Developing Graduate Skills through Studying Seventeenth-Century Literature: Some Reflections (2020)
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Adcock. (2020). Developing Graduate Skills through Studying Seventeenth-Century Literature: Some Reflections. The Journal of Academic Development and Education, https://doi.org/10.21252/kd1t-g977

This paper advocates for the use of learner-centred teaching activities and enquiry-based assessment through reflection on the organisation of a FHEQ Level 5 seventeenth-century English literature module. While English is a subject where, traditional... Read More about Developing Graduate Skills through Studying Seventeenth-Century Literature: Some Reflections.

"Jack Presbyter in His Proper Habit": subverting Whig rhetoric in Aphra Behn's The Roundheads (1682) (2014)
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Adcock, R. (2014). "Jack Presbyter in His Proper Habit": subverting Whig rhetoric in Aphra Behn's The Roundheads (1682). Women's Writing, 34 -55. https://doi.org/10.1080/09699082.2014.941182

Aphra Behn’s The Roundheads (1st perf. 1681, pub. 1682) was produced during a propaganda battle between the Whigs and Tories and set during the Interregnum in order to draw parallels between parliamentary usurpation and the Whig plea for
“liberty an... Read More about "Jack Presbyter in His Proper Habit": subverting Whig rhetoric in Aphra Behn's The Roundheads (1682).

"As Shee Preachers Hold Forth Christ": Sara Jones's Challenge to Episcopacy, The Relation of a Gentlewoman (1642) (2011)
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Adcock. (2011). "As Shee Preachers Hold Forth Christ": Sara Jones's Challenge to Episcopacy, The Relation of a Gentlewoman (1642). Prose Studies, 1 -18. https://doi.org/10.1080/01440357.2011.568778

When Sara Jones spoke in front of her separatist congregation in 1632, she was opening herself up to criticism for going against scriptural precedents: it was not divinely sanctioned that women should speak in church. Perhaps deriving confidence from... Read More about "As Shee Preachers Hold Forth Christ": Sara Jones's Challenge to Episcopacy, The Relation of a Gentlewoman (1642).