Watt 1997

Watt, Diane. Secretaries of God: Women Prophets in Late Medieval & Early Modern England. Cambridge: D S Brewer, 1997.

Alpha and Omega: Eleanor Davies, Civil War Prophet

"She saw herself variously as the type of Daniel, St John the Apocalypse, the Virgin, or the Woman Clothed with the sun, indirectly constructing her identities by metonymy. In all her tracts except for the first, she referred to herself in the third person" (122-3)

third person "is a strategy which potentially facilitates the dislocation of an authoritative and thus male voice frmo the female body. Davies, however, erases herself as subject only to place herself in the position of the objet of her discourse; in fact, she emphasizes her own status as both woman and aristocrat and the uniqueness of her role as prophet." (123)

strain of conformist conservatism in her writing (124)

control over printing process (134)