Anna Trapnel
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Anna Trapnel (fl. 1642-1660)[1] was a travelling Baptist prophet and Fifth Monarchist active in England in the 1650s.
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Early life
[edit]Trapnel was born in Poplar in the parish of Stepney to the east of the City of London to William Trapnel, a shipwright, and Anne.[1]
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After her mother’s death, she began to experience religious raptures and visions; she attended the Baptist church and was involved with Familism before joining the Fifth Monarchists in 1652.[2]
In April 1654 she was arrested on charges of witchcraft, madness, whoredom, vagrancy, and seditious intent; she answered the judges’ questions with parables and bible verses and managed to avoid the death penalty.[3]
Most of her publications began as transcriptions of her sayings which were written down by a friend during her times of spiritual rapture.[4]
Many of her works foretold the defeat of all political rulers due to Jesus’ victorious return to earth.[5]
Works
[edit]- The Cry of a Stone, 1654 [6]
- Strange and Wonderful News from White-Hall: Or, The Mighty Visions Proceeding from Mistris Anna Trapnel, 1654 [6]
- Anna Trapnel's Report and Plea; or, a Narrative of Her Journey from London into Cornwall, 1654 [6]
- A Legacy for Saints; Being Several Experiences of the dealings of God with Anna Trapnel, 1654 [6]
- A lively voice for the king of saints and nations 1658 [6]
Notes
[edit]- 1 2 Matthew, H. C. G.; Harrison, B., eds. (23 September 2004). "The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/38075. Retrieved 18 April 2025. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
- ↑ ""Early Modern Women Poets (1520-1700): An Anthology", page 295". Oxford University Press. March 2001. Retrieved 22 September 2025.
- ↑ "Trapnel, Anna (fl. 1642-60)". Non Conformist Women Writers 1650-1850. Retrieved 17 September 2025.
- ↑ Tarr, N. (20 September 2024). "Trapnel, Anna". The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women's Writing. Palgrave Macmillan. Retrieved 17 September 2025.
- ↑ Parish, Debra (2019). "Women on the Edge in Early Modern Europe Chapter 6 - Anna Trapnel: Prophet or Witch? Page 113". Amsterdam University Press. Retrieved 17 September 2025.
- 1 2 3 4 5 McGann, Claire (3 February 2020). ""To print her discourses & hymmes": the typographic features of Anna Trapnel's prophecies". Taylor and Francis. “The Seventeenth Century” Volume 36, 2021, issue 2, page 233. Retrieved 17 September 2025.
Further reading
[edit]- Lyn Bennet. ‘Women, Writing, and Healing: Rhetoric, Religion, and Illness in An Collins, “Eliza”, and Anna Trapnel’. Journal of Medical Humanities, vol. 36, 2015, pp. 157–70.
- Rebecca Bullard. ‘Textual Disruption in Anna Trapnel’s Report and Plea (1654)’. The Seventeenth Century, vol. 23, 2008, pp. 34–53.
- Kate Chedgzoy. ‘Female Prophecy in the Seventeenth Century: The Instance of Anna Trapnel’. Writing and the English Renaissance, edited by William Zunder and Suzanne Trill, Longman, 1996, pp. 238–54
- Catie Gill. ‘“All The Monarchies Of This World Are Going Down The Hill” The Anti-Monarchism of Anna Trapnel’s The Cry of a Stone (1654)’. Prose Studies, vol. 29, pp. 19–35.
- Elspeth Graham. ‘“Licencious Gaddyng Abroade”: A Conflicted Imaginary of Mobility in Early Modern English Protestant Writings’. Études Épistémè, vol. 35, 2019, pp. 1–30.
- Hilary Hinds. ‘Soul-Ravishing and Sin-Subduing: Anna Trapnel and the Gendered Politics of Free Grace’. Renaissance and Reformation, vol. 25, 2001, pp. 117–37.
- Kevin Killeen. ‘“People of a Deeper Speech”: Anna Trapnel, Enthusiasm, and the Aesthetics of Incoherence’. The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women’s Writing in English, 1540-1700, Oxford University Press, 2022, pp. 203–16.
- Erica Longfellow. Women and Religious Writing in Early Modern England. Cambridge University Press, 2004.
- Maria Magro. "Spiritual Biography and Radical Sectarian Women's Discourse: Anna Trapnel and the Bad Girls of the English Revolution". Journal of Medieval and Modern Studies, 2004.
- Susannah B. Mintz. ‘The Specular Self of “Anna Trapnel’s Report and Plea’. Pacific Coast Philology, vol. 25, 2000, pp. 1–16.
- Marcus Nevitt. ‘“Blessed, Self-Denying, Lambe-like?” The Fifth Monarchist Women’. Critical Survey, vol. 11, 1999, pp. 83–97.
- Ramona Wray. ‘“What Say You to [This] Book? [...] Is It Yours?”: Oral and Collaborative Narrative Trajectories in the Mediated Writings of Anna Trapnel’. Women’s Writing, vol. 16, 2009, pp. 408–24.